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Civics Club Cited
AUGUSTA - Saint Martin de
Porres Civics Club of the Im
maculate Conception School is
one of the twenty Clubs award
ed Honorable Mention by the
Commission on American Citi
zenship of the Catholic Uni
versity of America.
Sister Mary Ailbe of the Mis
sionary Franciscan Sisters of
the Immaculate Conception is
moderator of the Club.
The unit is winner of a letter
of congratulations from the
Commission on American Ci
tizenship for its outstanding
achievements. The judges found
it extremely difficult to select
the best ones from the 4,500
Catholic civics clubs through
out the country that executed
meritorious activities.
The civics club’s theme for
the school year has been "Build
Better Local Government,’’
This is part of the Com
mission’s program to promote
greater understanding and ap
preciation of the principles of
Christian citizenship among
boys and girls in upper ele
mentary school grades.
Churchmen Protest Negro Ban
OKLAHOMA CITY, (NC)—
The barring of Negroes from
the local YMCA and other facil
ities drew sharp protests from
Catholic and Protestant spokes
men.
Bishop Victor J. Reed of Ok
lahoma City-Tulsa said "Icon
demn racism in all its forms.’’
He expressed the hope that the
“many’’ segregated establish
ments in the state will "open
their doors to all those willing
to patronize them."
Statements of protest also
came from Episcopal Bishop
Chilton Powell and the Rev.
Earl Kragness, executive sec
retary of the Oklahoma Coun
cil of Churches.
Groups of Negroes briefly
picketed the downtown YMCA
after two visiting Negro youths
were refused admission.
Coinciding with the YMCA
incident was the barring of Ne
gro members of the Oaklahoma
Ladies Bar Auxiliary—an asso
ciation of lawyers’ wives—from
a local club and a cafeteria.
AUGUSTA
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Strike Against Leftists
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad,
(NC)—Priests and Sisters have
joined in the general strike
against Premier Cheddi Jagan's
leftist regime in British Gui
ana, according to work received
here on a fishing vessel from
that country.
Normal communications be
tween British Guiana and the
outside world have been dis
rupted by the strike.
The striking Religious are
members of two teachers’ un
ions that are affiliated with the
British Guiana Trades Union
Council, which called the strike.
The Catholic Standard, publica
tion of the Georgetown diocese,
has also accepted the strike
call and has responded to re
quests from its printers by sus
pending publication.
The Guiana strike is a protest
against a labor relations mea
sure being promoted by the
Jagan government.
The Church in British Guiana
has long been at odds with the
Jagan regime, particularly over
its efforts to secularize educa
tion.
In the capital city of George
town, 3,000 Catholics gathered
for an all-night vigil before
the Feast of St. Joseph the
Worker to pray for national
peace. The observance was
planned originally as a citywide
pilgrimage but the strike crisis
induced Church authorities to
confine it to the cathedral.
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A Good Address in Atlanta
AUGUSTA
MAYOR VERNON MADDOX of North Augusta was one of the speakers invited by the
Saint Martin de Porres Club to speak on Local Government. L. to R.—Joann Allen,
President, Major V. Maddox, Sister M. Ailbe, moderator.
CHICAGO, (NC)—Adlai E.
Stevenson contrasted His Holi-
aess Pope John XXIII’s ap
proach to international affairs
with that of "self-styled pat
riots" who oppose all interna
tional action.
Stevenson, U. S. Ambassador
to the United Nations, said these
two attitudes create "a remar
kable paradox."
The Pope, leader of "the
world’s most ancient Christian
Faith,’’ proclaims "the need for
the boldest innovation in the
ordering of our international
relations," he said.
"Yet, at the same time, here
in America—still a new coun
try and formed moreover in a
mood of radical and even uto
pian vision—here in America,
self-styled patriots denounce
all aspects of international ac
tion as betrayal, urge the re
moval of the United National
from American soil, bombard
senators and excite credulous
people about plots to police
America with African troops
and hand it over to the UN,
censor books for mentioning
UNESCO, and brook over hea
ven knows what connections be-
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International Affairs
Stevenson Contrasts
Pope’s Approach With
“Self-Styled Patriots”
tween internationalism and
communism," Stevenson said.
Stevenson praised Pope John
for his statements on inter
national relations, including his
social encyclical Mater et Mag-
istra and his peace encyclical
Pacem in Terris.
Addressing the annual scho
larship dinner of De Paul Uni
versity, he said it is "clear"
that for Pope John "the human
race is not a cold abstraction,
but a single precious family
whose life, interest, responsi
bilities and well being are a
constant and loving preoccupa
tion."
He said the Pope does not
leave the problem of peace at’
the level of "abstraction." He
added:
"In Mater et Magistra he
specifically underlined the duty
of the rich nations to conduct
their economic policies in such
a way that the development
of poorer communities is fos
tered.
"In Pacem in Terris he re
commends a world authority as
the crown of the subsidiary
authority of states and com
munities, and specifically com
mends the United Nations Or
ganization. . .’’
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BRUNSWICK FIRST COMMUNION—The First Communion
Class of St. Francis Xavier Church, Brunswick is pictured
with the Rev. Paul Burkort, S.M., pastor.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.—
An audience at Pennsylvania
State University heard Paul
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Blanshard, writer and lecturer
widely known for his attacks
on the Catholic Church bitterly
denounce Catholic schools in a
debate with William B. Ball, a
Harrisburg attorney prominent
in Church-State discussions,
Blanshard’s remarks con
cerning the legality of auxiliary
services to Parochial School
pupils were sprinkled with al
lusions to "thought control in
Catholic schools," "hierar-
chial domination," "Jesuiti
cal legerdemain," and "Fran
co-loving teachers,”
In the two-hour discussion,
sponsored by the University
Department of Education Ser
vices, he also charged Catho
lic schools are frequently of a
second-rate quality and fre
quently create a "divisive
mentality" in graduates.
But he did concede that aux
iliary services may legally be
provided by government to chil
dren in parochial schools. He
said that the Federal school
lunch program, medical ser
vices to children in parochial
schools and tax-paid bus rides
are constitutional "as the law
now stands."
Ball, in reply to Blanshard’s
attack on Catholic schools,
charged him with drawing a
caricature of the schools, call
ing it "absurd."
"If the Catholic schools are
what Mr. Blanshard says they
are, if the Catholic hierarchy
is the frightening power bund
which he says .it is, if the
Catholic teachers are the ty
rants he describes them to be,
then the product of the Catholic
schools must be a moral and
social monster,
"But the absurdity of this
caricature is plainly revealed
when you look to your Catholic
neighbor, your Catholic asso
ciate at work or Catholics whom
you knew in the service,
"Thinking of the latter point,
if Mr. Blanshard is right, then
Catholics should be excluded
from the draft and from every
other area of public responsi
bility," he said.
Ball called for an end to in
citements to prejudice. What is
needed, he said, is "fre
quently dialogue with respect to
real issue—not phantom issues
Priest, Minister
See Council
As Unity Aid
SHORT HILLS, N. J., (NC)—
A Catholic priest and a Protes
tant theologian agreed here that
the first session of the Second
Vatican Council, which both at
tended, helped advance the
Christian unity movement.
Father John B. Sheerin,
C. S. P., editor in chief of the
Catholic World magazine, and
Dr. Franz Hildebrandt, profes
sor of Christian theology at
Drew University, Madison,
N. J., spoke at St. Rose of Lima
parish on "The Protestant-Ca
tholic View of Christian Unity
in the Light of Vatican II."
"The bishops," Father Shee
rin said, "applied an ecumeni
cal test to every document at
the first session.
—which divide us in the field of
Church - State relations. —
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