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7 PAGE 6—The Southern Cross, March 16, 1963 Some of the nation’s most prominent manufacturing exe cutives will be in Savannah as of April 6, while on the 1963 Red Carpet Tour of Georgia Working on a committee headed by former major, W. LEE MINGLEDORFF, JR., will be KIRK SUTLIVE, Personal Rela tions executive of the Savannah Union Bag Camp and Paper Corporation. . . .FR. HERBERT WELLMEIER (Cathedral Sav’h.) will be the preacher at a Solemn High Mass to be held on March 21, at Sacred Heart Church, Savannah. The celebra tion is an annual event at the local Benedictine Priory in tri bute to St. Benedict. . . .FR. GEORGE JAMES (Blessed Sa crament, Sav’h.) was the guest speaker at the (Chatham) Coun ty Exchange Club’s dinner held on Tuesday, the 12th. . . . JOHN M. BRENNAN, president of the 151-year-old Hibernian Society of Savannah, gave a talk on the life of the patron saint of Ireland, at a meeting of city’s Exchangites. . .Among three young men who will compete for the honor of representing the Optimists of Savannah Beach in the district oratorical com petition at Jekyll Island will be TERRENCE SEYDEN. Ter rence, who spoke at the Beach organization’s meeting on March 14, is the son of MR. AND MRS. ARNOLD SEYDEN . . . .The Annual Meeting of the St. Mary* s Home Guild will be held this Sunday at 4 o’clock at their Home on East Victory Drive, Sav’h. All are invited to attend. A tea will follow the meeting... .Savannah’s W. S. A. V.-TV and Radio Sta tion recently paid special tribute to THOMAS J. (MICK EY) DOOLEY, who died on March 7. Mickey, co-marshal of the 1961 St. Patrick’s Day Parade and retired Chatham County police sergeant, will long be remembered by all who had the good fortune of his acquaintance. . . .JOSEPH V. RYAN, JR., a Savannah junior at Georgia Southern College, was recently elected secretary of the International Language Association, a newly formed organization on the GSC cam pus. Majoring in English, Joe is the son of MR. AND MRS. J. V. RYAN. . . .ANDREW J. RYAN, JR. Sollicitor General of Chatham County, addressed the Sacred Heart (Sav’h.) Holy Name Society on the subject of “Brotherhood,” at a meeting following the 8 o’clock Mass on last Sunday. . . .Brownie, In termediate, and Senior Girl Scout Troops, sponsored by the Cathedral parish, marked Girl Scout Sunday by attending the 9 o’clock Mass on last Sunday, at the Cathedral. Girl Scout leaders are MRS. JOSEPH WIN DERS and MRS. OWEN PORTER, Intermediates j MRS. GAY PAUL and MRS. JOSEPH MULLER, Seniors; and MRS. MICHAEL GANNAM, Brownies . . . .JULIUS T. DRAKE, mem ber of Blessed Sacrament par ish, Savannah, has been award ed a special Thirty-five years Scouts award. He previously received the Silver Beaver Award. . . .HENRY S. BROWN has been appointed Plant Ac countant at the Monroe,Michi- gan plant of the Union Bag- Camp Corporation. For the past seventeen years he has been employed at the Savannah plant and for the past three years has been assistant to the Savannah Comptroller. He is married to the former MARY JANE FAHEY. . . .Anyone for a “Fifty-Mile-Hike”? Send future news items to Fr. Lawrence A. Lucree P. O. Box 180, Savannah, Ga. Ad Altare Dei Awards At Macon MACON — Shelton Sharpe, Chris Sheridan and Packie Mc- Goldrick III have been present ed the Ad Altare Dei Award by Monsignor Thomas I. Shee han at St. Joseph’s Church. The award is recognition the Church gives to the scout for advancement in spiritual as pects of the Scout program. The boys are members of Troop 10. Shelton and Chris are in the 8th grade and Packie in the 7th grade at St. Joseph’s School. Preparations Set For Award Program Preparations for the award program for the altar boys of the diocese have entered their final stages. The various com mittees have begun final pre paration for housing and enter taining visiting boys and their parents. The program will take place on March 23rd and 24th at Saint John’s Seminary, Savan nah. It will open with regis tration of the candidates for the awards and their parents between three and five on the twenty third and will close with an outdoor Mass celebrated by Bishop McDonough on the fol lowing morning. The awards will be presented at that time. The afternoon of the 24th an openhouse will be held at the seminar for all the people of the diocese. The new wing of the seminary will be dedicated at the time. The dedication cere monies are set for 4:00 p.m. On St. Patrick’s Day Special TV Program For Savannah, Macon HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Leif Erickson and Jeanne Cagney will be seen as the King and Queen of Ireland in Family Theater’s special St. Patrick Day film, TRIAL AT TARA. Richard Hale will appear as Patrick, the intrepid Irish Crusader. The unique background for the story is Ireland in the 5th Cen tury, before Christianity had been brought to the Emerald Isles. The people of Ireland followed the pagan beliefs of the Druids. Each year the High King of Ireland proclaimed that WSAV-TV Savannah will show the film at 3:30 p.m. with WMAZ-TV scheduling the pro gram for 12:30 p.m., on Sunday March 17th. all fires in the land must be extinguished the day before the pagan celebration of the First Fire of Spring. No flame could be kindled until the following day when the High King would light the ceremonial fire. The date for the First Fire of Spring coincided with Holy Saturday, so the undaunted Patrick lighted the Christian Paschal Fire in observance of the occasion. The High King was outraged by this defiance and sent his soldiers to capture the intruder. Patrick was taken to Tara Castle to stand trial. His courage before the outraged King won many of the court to Christianity. “Legion Of Mary” Talk At St. James SAVANNAH—The St. James Parish Council of Catholic Wo men’s meeting was held Monday evening March 4th in the meeting room of the new school. Guest speaker for the evening was Rev. E. Perto Fiero, who gave an interesting and infor mative talk on the “Legion of Mary,” explaining it’s aims and purposes. This was follow ed by a question and answer discussion. Rt. Rev. Msgr. John D. Toom- ey, Spiritual Moderator pre sented Mrs. Edmond B. An derson, newly appointed Na tional Vice Chairman for the Committee on Family and Par ent Education with the National Council of Catholic Women. Msgr. Toomey announced St. James Parish would conduct their annaul “Mission” com mencing March 24th through March 31st during which re ligious articles would go on sale, this sponsored by the Spir itual Development Committee. SISTER MARY CORNILE, R.S.M. outlines history of St. Joseph’s Hospital, Savannah in talk before St. Michael’s Home and School Association at Savannag Beach. Tybee Group Hears Sr. Comile SAVANNAH BEACH — Saint Michael’s Home and School As sociation held its March meeting at Saint Michael’s School. Mrs. Duane Hatch, president, pre sided. The speaker of the evening was Sister MaryCornileR.S.M. Her topic was the past, the present and the future of Saint Joseph's hospitals Sister’s talk brought out many delightful and interesting facts about the be ginning of the hospital. Sister Cornile was accom panied by Sister Mary Conrad, Communion Breakfast At Sacred Heart SAVANNAH—Solicitor Gen eral Andrew J. Ryan was guest speaker at a Communion break fast of the Sacred Heart Holy Name Society held Sunday, March 10th. Thirty members were in attendance with Anthony Gannam, president of the So ciety presiding. The men heard a report on the recent Open House held at Sacred Heart from the Rev. Luke Bain, O.S.B. A nominating Committee composed of Joseph A. Logan, Chairman, Arthur W. Fogarty and P. Eloy Stapelton was ap pointed and will present a slate of proposed officers at the May meeting. As the Second Sunday of Ap ril, regular Holy Name Sunday, is Easter Sunday, no April meeting will be held. who showed slides of the hos pital from its beginning until the present day. In the beginning the sisters worked under many hardships and much of its support was brought about by the sisters themselves who went out and begged. It is Sister’s wish that in the near future a new Saint Joseph’s hospital will be avail able for all who wish their services. Says Court Will End All Religion In Public Life WATERVILLE, Maine, (NC)—Future decisions by the U. S. Supreme Court will remove all expressions of a religious element from the pub lic and official scene, Msgr. Francis J. Lally, editor of the Pilot of Boston, predicted here. Delivering the keynote ad dress at the opening of a two- day religious convocation at Colby College, Msgr. Lally told the assembly ‘‘A long series of Supreme Court decisions have made many, perhaps the majo rity of Americans, anxious about the place of religion in the public life of America.” The editor of the Boston arch diocese’s newspaper stressed that ' ‘we cannot have sectarian practice officially part of pub lic life, but we should be able to discover a viable moral con sensus which would be shared by the vast majority of our citizens.” This would include, he said, “a reverence for God, a belief in the dignity of man, and the primacy of spiritual values.” Msgr. Lally added that “this would be consistent with the long-standing American tradi tion and at the same time would be without sectarian particular ity.” JOSEPH M. McDONOUGH, Grand Marshal of Savannah’s 1963 St. Patrick’s Day Par ade is invested with the sash emblematic of his office by Mr. Nicholas Stafford, last year’s Marshal. Looking on at extreme left is Dan Keane, chairman of the parade committee, and at extreme left, John N. Grotty, one of Mr. McDonough’s aides. Pope Reported Willing To Receive Red Premier VATICAN CITY, (NC)—His Holiness Pope John XXIII has said he is willing to receive Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush chev if he visits Rome, it has been reliably reported here. According to information giv en to the N. C. W. C. News Service by a reliable source, the Pope expressed his willing ness during the private audi ence he granted to Premier Khrushchev’s son-in-law, Al exei Adzhubei, editor of the Moscow daily Izvestia. The informant said he had learned from a contact close to Adzhubei that Pope John gave the Soviet newsman a sealed message for the Premier at the audience. It was also reported that Premier Khrushchev may visit Rome at the end of June at the invitation of the Italian government. Former Italian President Giovanni Cronchi ac cept ad an invitation to visit the Soviet Union in 1961. It has been learned that the Pontoff’s message to Premier Khrushchev was written in Rus sian and that it expressed the Pope’s thanks to the Soviet leader for the latter’s letter Pontifical Requiem For Harrisburg Auxiliary HARRISBURG, Pa.—Pontifi cal requiem Mass for Auxil iary Bishop Lawrence F. Sch- Irish Program At Cathedral Home And School SAVANNAH—Sure and be- gora, an Irish program was en joyed by the Cathedral home and school association on March 8th. in the school cafetorium. The third grade under the guidance of Sister Delores Ma rie staged a contest for the loveliest shamrock. A leper- chaum got into the act and there were pink and blue shamrocks all over the place. After a few donneybrooks and some good- natured Irish ribbing, the day was saved by Timmy O’Shea and a bright green shamrock. The colleens danced Irish jigs and everyone joined in to sing Erin go Brah with an encore of St. Patrick’s day in Savannah. Mr. Tom Walsh, program di rector, introduced Mr. Joseph Michael McDonough, grand marshall of the St. Patrick’s Day parade. He spoke on the financial importance of the pa rade committee and how the parade has expanded over the years until now the bands come from as far as 500 miles. “There are also six naval units, a mine sweeper and destroyer escort. In former years, it started at old St. Patrick’s church now gone, on west Broad and Liberty. It was a parade on horseback, and there were lots of watering places along the way for the horses,” he said. Financial support has al ways been a staggering job for the parade committee, he added. Modern Library Is Important, Parents Told SAVANNAH—Father Bren dan Dooley, O. S. B., guest speaker at the Sacred Heart Home and School Association, spoke of the importance of a modern, up-to-date library for all institutions of learning. This was in conjunction with the Book Fair held Sunday, March 10 at Benedictine Armory for the benefit of the Sacred Heart School library. Cub Master Fred Schunemann related the history of Pack 815 and made the suggestion that the Home and School Association sponsor the Pack. John Markwalter, managing editor of the Southern Cross, spoke briefly on the operation of the paper and how read ers can help with the ad vertising. Sister Margaret Eugenia’s seventh grade had the most parents in attendance. ott, 55, of Harrisburg, was of fered Friday, March 15, in St. Patrick’s Cathedral here by Bishop George L. Leech of Har risburg. Burial was in Holy Cross Cemetery here. Bishop Schott died March 11 in Geisinger Memorial Hos pital, Danville, Pa., after a long illness from a blood disease. Bishop Schott was a native of Philadelphis, an alumnus of St. Vincent’s College and St. Vin cent’s Seminary, Latrobe, Pa. He was ordained June 15, 1935 and was consecrated May 1, 1956 as Titualr Bishop of Elu- za to serve as Auxiliary Bishop of Harrisburg. He was active in the Laymen’s Retreat Move ment.—(NCWC News Service) National Group Named By CDA To Fight Smut WASHINGTON, (NC)—A new national committee called * ‘Wo men for Decency” has been formed by the Catholic Daugh ters of America. CDA Supreme Regent Mar garet J. Buckley of suburban Chevy Chase, Md., said the- object of the committee will be to combat obscene literature and to “clean up” magazine stands and book racks through out the. country. Mrs. Lucille Kennedy of Ta coma, Wash., who has been in CDA work for 25 years, was named chairman of the com mittee and Mrs. M. Teresa Sny der of Baltimore vice chair man. State regents in 44 states and in Puerto Rico will appoint local committees to work with the national group in the campaign. The CDA now has a member ship of 215,000 women. of congratulations on the award ing of the 1963 Balzan Peace Prize to the Pope. Leaving the audience with the Pope, Adzhubei appeared deeply moved and his wife, Rada, who had accompanied him, had tears in her eyes. The Soviet editor was also accompanied during his 15- minute visit (March 7) with Pope John by a Russian priest, Father Alexander Kulik, who served as interpreter for Rus sian Orthodox observers at the first session of the ecumenical council. Physician Warns Against Kansas Abortion Bill KANSAS CITY, Kan., (NC)— A physician has charged that a bill to relax the state’s abortion laws would open the way for “abortion mills” in Kansas. Dr. Ralph J. Rettenmaier, chief pathologist at Providence Hospital here and coroner for Wyandotte County, also said “there is never any medical indication for therapeutic abor tion.” Rettenmaier commented on a bill in the Kansas Senate. The legislation would permit de struction of an unborn child would be born with "grave” defects, that the pregnancy came about because of rape or incest. Rettenmaier said that the mental and physical challenges in the “physiological process of birth are no more strenuous than the physiological pro cesses encountered everyday.” He charged that the terms “rape and incest” are added “to arouse public sentiment for such bills.” The law would also charge physicians with a “severe re sponsibility” because “he is being charged with a prognos tication that he cannot possibly make.” To Mark Feast Of St. Joseph SAVANNAH—What St. Pat rick is to the Sons of Erin, St. Joseph is to the Sons of Italy. Each year the members of the Savannah Italian Club gather together to pay homage to Him who God chose as head of the Holy Family, their Patron Saint. This year the festivities will be held on Sunday March 17th. The theme this year, as each year, is family activity. The members and their families will attend Mass and receive Holy Communion at the 9:30 o’clock Mass at St. Michael’s Church, Savannah Beach. At 5 o’clock in the afternoon, they will gathe r at the club grounds for, first, a dedication of the family and at the Grotto, and then enjoy a family ban quet, Italian style, of course. This is the biggest day of the year for members of the Savannah Italian Club, and this year promises to be the best one yet. Lay Missioners’ Work Called “Giant Stride” OMAHA, Neb., (NC)—The lay missionary movement is proof that the Church is “alive, rele vant and up-to-date,” the co director of the Latin Amer ica Bureau, National Catholic Welfare Conference, said here. Msgr. William J, Quinn of Chicago made the remard at a departure ceremony for two lay missionaries headed for assignments in Chile. During the ceremony Arch bishop Gerald T. Bergan of Omaha presented mission cros ses to Dorothy Conry, Omaha, and Dr. John Keenan, St. Paul, Minn. In his talk Msgr. Quinn de scribed the lay missionary movement as “a giant stride forward.” “This work is important for layment not just because others will be benefited or the cause of the Church advanced,” he said. “It is necessary for the lay people themselves in seek ing perfection.” Archbishop Bergan said he hopes some day to establish a parish in Latin America staff ed by Omaha priests assisted by lay volunteers from the arch diocese. Stressing the need for prompt aid to the Church in Latin- Am erica, he commented that “if we lose the Church there, we lose one-third of the world’s Catholics.” Archbishop Bergan said he was reminded of a bishop at a session of the ecumenical coun cil who, rising after other speakers had referred to the “glorious Church” and the conquering Church,” declar ed: "This is not true. It is the suffering, the impoverished, the dying Church unless we supply it with the Blood of our living Lord.” Father Weigle Declines Offer To Speak At C. U. WASHINGTON, (NC)—Father Gustave Weigel, S. J., ofWook- stock (Md.) College said a pre vious speaking engagement pre vented him from accepting an invitation to give the com mencement address at the Ca tholic University of America graduation exercises here June 9. Father Weigel was one of four priests refused clearance to address C. U. students during a Lenten lecture series because the four hold definite views on issues being debated at the Sec ond Vatican Council. Father Weigel had been invited to give the commencement address by Msgr. William J. McDonald, university rector. The Jesuit told the rector he had accept ed an invitation to speak at Al fred (N. Y.) University on the same day. March is a great month in the calendar of saints, for mid- March presents three great pat rons in a five-day span. The trio of saints fits into the idea of vocation month so well. St. Patrick (March 17) is the illus trious apostle of Ireland, a giant in God’s priestly corps who spread the faith around the globe. St. Joseph (March 19) is the silent man of the gospels, and while no priest himself, as guardian and foster- father of the Great High Priest, rates a position as a patron of vocations. The third man is St. Benedict (March 21), the father of monasticism, to whom we Christians are all greatly in debted for the movement he began which contributed much to the growth and preservation of early Christian sanctity and culture. Some time ago, I took a vocal survey on teenager’s ideas about vocations to the priest hood. Needless to say, they re flected many of the pet attitudes of their parents. Many of their J ©HA!. coitt"-"' objections to eighth grade boys going to the seminary were mere echoes of what I’ve heard from older folks. Let’s exam ine their arguments and attempt a solution. Some say that at age 14 a boy is too young to know if he wants to be a priest. The ans wer to this is that no final decision is made until eleven or twelve years later. The boy simply senses the stirrings of a budding vocation and wants to nurture its growth in the proper climate and setting. Others maintain the boy ought to wait until he’s eighteen, more J mature. Perhaps the most valid answer to this objection is to reply that God does indeed call some at age 18, and some at 28 and some few at 58, after they have reared grandchild ren. But those who are invited by his gentle persuasions of grace at 14, ought to answer at 14. God did not wait until they were 18 to call therri. Jesus did not tell the rich young man or any of his apos tles to come and follow Him' in a year or two, He expected no delay or stalling. Even in those days, he gave his “semi narians” an opportunity to quit their vocation, when they found the Eucharist hard to under stand. m a too?: TO ACRED mm SACRED HEART SCHOOL, Savannah sponsored a book fair last Sunday as part of a school library buildup. Patrons bought books offered for library. sale and donated them to the Still others have said that if God is really calling a boy to the priesthood, that young lad will ultimately be ordained de spite all obstacles thrown in his path. I’m afraid this is utter nonsense. A vocation can be lost, without question. History has proven this repeatedly. There are sufficient unhappy married men, who, to their dying day, wonder if they weren’t called by God to the. priesthood, and regret never having gone to the seminary to find out conclusively. Finally, for space permits only one more opinion, some ob ject that the young boy who goes to the seminary right from grade school never knew what life is about, never sees how the other side lives, doesn’t know if he likes girls and marriage. This one sounds so very logical. Yet, almost everyday some where in this world there is a young boy leaving the seminary who must have had some vague- idea about girls, because he said to his spiritual director, “I think God is calling me to head a family, not to be a priest.” No one prevents his leaving, no one fears he will be far behind his contemporaries in pursuit of romance. The people who raise this last objection most often have not hesitated to push their sixth- grader onto the social merry- go-round for which the child had not inclination nor maturity, but they insist the boy has no idea of a vocation. CYO members, please re member to pray for vocations, and for God to enlighten you in your choice of a state of life. Please pray, too, for the success of the Sisters’ Vocation Day, March 25th in Savannah. Father Herbert Welmeier P. O. Box 2227, Savannah, Ga.