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PAGE 4—The Southern Cross, July 11, 1963
Immigration Reform
An eight-point legislative program de
signed to liberalize the U. S. immigration
laws has been introduced by Sen. Jacob K.
Javits of New York.
Cosponsors of the measure, which Javits
said would "end our piecemeal approach to
immigration reform” and correct a policy
which "has produced an incredible epic of
broken lives” are: Sens. Kenneth B. Keating,
New York; Wayne L. Morse, Oregon; Lever-
ett Saltonstall, Massachusetts; Clifford P.
Case, New Jersey, and Hugh Scott, Pennsyl
vania.
The legislation would:
—Determine immigration quotas on the
basis of the 1960 census instead of the cur
rently used 1920 census. Quotas would be
redetermined regularly on the basis of each
10-year census.
—Allow unused quotas to be pooled and
reassigned to waiting lists, as directed by
the President subject to the approval of both
the House and Senate. .
—Ease quota restrictions against Asiatic
and "colonial” peoples.
—Establish a board of visa appeals in the
State Department to review denials of visas.
—Enact a 10-year statute of limitations on
deportation of aliens for reasons of past
conduct.
—Provide court review of citizenship
cases on the same basis as provided for
deportation orders now.
—Eliminate a provision through which
naturalized citizens can lose their citizen
ship by residence abroad, thereby putting
naturalized citizens on the same basis as
native-born citizens.
—Allow immigration above quotas to
"fourth preference” applicants—brothers,
sisters sons or daughters of citizens—if
their petitions were approved by the Attorney
General before January 1, 1963.
Such legislation has long been needed.
Unfortunately, too often in the past it has
foundered on the rocks of racial and
religious bias.
Its passage now would be a welcome indi
cation that old canards which place a label
of inferiority or undesirability on certain
religious and ethnic groups no longer find
acceptance by the people of a nation * ‘Dedi
cated To The Proposition That All Men Are
Created Equal.”
Teen Time Is A Trying Time
God’s World
The age of adolescence is a
trying time, for the adolescent
himself as well as for his par
ents. Adolescence begins and
ends approximately with the
teen years. It is the period of
life during
which a per
son gradually
leaves child
hood behind
and emerges
into maturity.
By its very
nature
a d o 1 escence
is a time of
flux, of change. The teenager
is not exactly the same person
today that he was yesterday, and
tomorrow he will not be exactly
the same as today. Consequent
ly adolescence is a time of emo
tional confusion, as the youth
tries to form a new but con
stantly changing image of him
self.
During childhood, life is quite
stable. Having a definitely as
signed place in society, a child
has a definite image of himself.
He knows what it means to be a
child because he knows what is
expected of a child. This is
true also of an adult. The ado
lescent, however, is never quite
sure where he stands. He is
reluctant to leave the safe de
pendence of childhood, yet Na
ture is urging him on to achieve
the independence of thought and
action which maturity demands.
Nature also is developing the
procreative power and awaken
ing the sexual drive. The youth
has to struggle with tensions and
feelings that are wholly new to
him. He has to build up controls
never before needed. He has to
learn what it means to be a man
(By Leo J. Trese)
(or she, a woman).
It is not surprising if the
adolescent lives in a state (usu
ally unrecognized by himself)
of emotional confusion. The pa
tience of his parents is strained
as he alternates between child
like moods of affection and trac-
tability, and adultlike moods of
stubborn independence. Some
times parents add to the teen
ager’s state of confusion. One
day they tell him, "You’re too
old for that sort of thing. You’re
not a child any more.” The next
day they say, " You’ re too young
for that. Don’t be getting such
big ideas.” It is little wonder
that the adolescent finds it diffi
cult to answer the question,
"Who am I?”
Because of his feeling of inse
curity, the teenager tries to find
stability by identifying himself
closely with others in his age
group. Membership in the herd
gives him a feeling of safety.
In his anxiety to be accepted by
his peers, the adolescent con
forms slavishly to their stan
dards. He (or she) must wear
his hair in a certain style, must
dress in a certain way, must
wear a certain kind of shoes,
must talk the jargon of his fel
lows.
This addiction to teenage fads
can be very irritating to par
ents. “Do you have to wear your
hair in that outlandish style?”
they ask. "What’s wrong with
the jacket you’ve already got?”
"I don’t care if ‘everyone’ at
school is using eye shadow.”
These are familiar parental re
actions.
However, it is the adoles
cent’s search for independence
which troubles parents most of
all. Their commands are ques-
When Johnny (Kennedy) Came Marching Home
Jottings
"Ah, Ireland, isn’t it grand
you look
Like a bride in her rich
adorning
And with all the pent up love
in my heart
I bid you the top of the morn
ing.”
WHEN JOHNNY (Kennedy)
came marching home to Ireland
the spirit and memory of every
Irish exile rode with him. There
was a pride in the heart of every
American exile for this young
man who returned to that lovely
green land and before all the
world paid his tribute and grati
tude. The hopes and fears of
all the bitter years was
realized. Ireland and the Irish
stand a little prouder today
after the long-deserved tribute
given before a world audience.
It has been long overdue but the
things that President Kennedy
said in Ireland will not be for
gotten soon. President Kennedy
eolquently and humorously said
the things that many of us have
felt about the right-little-island
but few have said and none of
us have had such an audience.
In the person of the President
of the United States of America,
a descendent of an Irish immi
grant, the sorrow of the years
turned to joy and Ireland of the
tears became Ireland of the
By BARBARA C. JENCKS
smiles indeed.
* * *
PRESIDENT KENNEDY had
the sensitivity and wisdom to
realize the importance of this
visit to a nation whose love of
liberty and faith is unequaled
on this earth. He personified,
too, the American success
story. It is a good meditation
for July, the month of the anni
versary of the birth of this na
tion, whose teeming masses
from dozens of nations have
written its glorious history. As
Bob Considine wrote: President
Kennedy returned a bit more
splendidly than his great
grandfather Paddy Kennedy de
parted. Paddy Kennedy, a Wex
ford man, sailed to Boston
steerage for $12.50 more than a
hundred years ago driven by the
infamous potato famine. His
grandson returned in an $8,000-
000 Beoing 707.” As President
of the United States, John Fitz
gerald Kennedy holds the high
est temoral office in the world.
It is important that this descen-
dent of the Irish immigrant went
back to Ireland to say thank
you and to tell the Irish and the
world in what esteem their con
tributions to the world and to
America in particular are held;
their traditions of scholarship,
their missionary endeavors;
their military heroes in every
one of America's wars. Ah, but,
it was a proud moment when
the Yankee boy named Kennedy
came home. . .and he was at
home truly. I was reminded of
writer John McNulty’s descrip
tion of his first visit to
Ireland. . .' ‘back home where
I’d never been.”
* * *
PRESIDENT KENNEDY said
that visiting Ireland made him
even prouder of America and
its millions of immigrants from
Scandanavia, Germany, Portu
gal and other nations as well as
Ireland. It made us proud, too,
of the democratic process here
and of the love of liberty and
faith carried here by immi
grants from the “homeland.”
There were many highlights of
the President’s visit to Ireland
that particularly impressed me,
notably his speech before the
Irish Dail, which should make
the world sit up and reconstruct
their thoughts about this nation
often called "backward” and
recently seen as "underde
veloped.” Their love of liberty
and heroism have no par in the
world. I thrilled with pride as
the President placed a wreath
on the graves of these heroes of
the Easter Rising. And at Uni-
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tioned, their directives are re
sisted, their instructions are
disobeyed. Like a mother hen
who has hatched a duck, parents
begin to wonder where this
changelling son or daughter
came from. They begin to won
der whether they have failed in
their efforts to raise this child
well.
Actually, this is Nature at
work; it is not a latent mean
ness coming out in the child. If
the teenager has had wise and
loving guidance in his earlier
years, he will weather the
storms and stresses of adoles
cence without serious harm. He
may drive his parents to dis
traction in the process, but ulti
mately he will come to anchor
in the calm harbor of maturity.
The adolescent does need gui
dance, firm guidance. He him
self, consciously or uncon
sciously, desires such gui
dance. In his emotional turbu
lence and uncertainty, he is
grateful for protection against
himself. Firm guidance is es
pecially needed when the teen
age code clashes with the moral
code or with established norms
of decency or courtesy. How
ever, an understanding of the
adolescent’s needs and pro
blems will enable parents to
exercise their guidance with
patience and with sympathy.
(Father Trese welcomes let
ters from his readers. The in
creasing volume of letters pro
hibits personal answers but
problems and ideas contained
in such correspondence can be
the basis of future columns. Ad
dress all letters to Father Leo
J. Trese, care of this news
paper.)
'HOLD ON TO YOUR BOOKS - HERE COMES THE WIND'
Now Let’s Face It
It Seems to Me
A great question facing Am
ericans today is whether they
are prepared to deal with cer
tain profound realities about
education. The Supreme Court
has outlawed, as unconstitu
tional, the cus
tomary minute
of public
school - spon
sored prayer
and Bible-
reading each
morning.
These pious
practices have
been salving
many consciences. We have
been behaving as if the reci
tation of the Lord’s Prayer and
the reading of a verse or two
from the Bible were a suffi
cient substitute for religious
and moral education.
They are not a sufficient sub
stitute. Now that they are go
ing, the delusion that they were
is going too. Americans must
begin asking themselves with
complete honesty, ' ‘What can
we do to see that children at*'
tending public schools—who are
the vast plurality of all our
children—receive an adequate
education instead of an inade
quate education?”
EDUCATION emphatically is
not adequate when it leaves stu
dents religiously illiterate or
half-literate. And this is what
the public schools do because
no means has been devised to al
low to help them to do more.
The resulting half-literacy
about religion is a weakness in
the nation, and it is growing
worse.
JOSEPH BREIG
What is even more alarm
ing is the fact that this weak
ness is in a nation upon which
has fallen a major share of re
sponsibility for the survival of
what we call Western civiliza
tion—the civilization which has
for its soul the Judeo-Christian
inheritance of religious truths
and moral commitments. With
out this inheritance, some sort
of civilization might survive—
a spiritless technological civil
ization—but certainly not the
civilization which made Europe
and the Western Hemisphere,
and now is remaking them after
two frightful civil wars called
World Wars I and II.
EDUCATION in America was
originally entirely religion-
sponsored. The whole idea of
universal education grew out
of the Judeo-Christian view of
life, which saw each soul, each
person as measurelessly val
uable, and equally entitled to the
knowledge needed for full devel
opment as a human being and
as a child of God. Before all
else, this knowledge was re
ligious; religious literacy was
what gave coherence, integrity
and ultimate point and purpose
to all other literacy.
There was no more thought
of government operating
schools than of government
writing the nation's literature.
Government was drawn in,
willynilly because of the im
mensity of the financial prob
lem of providing free schools,
free textbooks, and so on, for
every youngster.
OUR PRESENT difficulties
might have been avoided by hav-
Will Rift Split Red World?
WASHINGTON, D. C., (NC)
—More and more people here
are saying the cleavage between
Soviet Russia and Red China is
the real thing, even though the
communists may try to mini
mize it.
Experts say the differences
between Moscow and Peking will
present problems for the West,
but some hold that the benefits
will outweigh the headaches.
These latter authorities claim
PRAY FOR OUR
PRIESTLY DEAD
Rev . James H. Grady (USA)
July 12, 1953
Very Rev. James F. O’Neill
July 12, 1870
Rev. Godfrey X. Schadewell
July 16, 1922
Oh Cod, tVho didst give to
thy servants by their sacredotal
office, a share in the priest
hood of the Apostles, grant,
we implore, that they may
also be one of their company
forever in heaven. Through
Christ Our Lord, Amen.
(By J. J. Gilbert)
the "fiction of communist unity
and infallibility” will be des
troyed, and Reds in countries
other than Russia and China
will become confused.
Many reasons are ascribed
for parting. At the root of it,
it is said, is a struggle for
leadership in the communist
world.
Some authorities say Red
China feels it staged its own
revolution without help from
Soviet Russia; that it is chafing
under economic pressures
Moscow has put on it; that it
is angry that Khrushchev has
withheld aid from its efforts
to develop its own nuclear wea
pons.
On the other hand, they say
Soviet Russia is not anxious to
be pulled into a nuclear war
by some ill advised act of Pek
ing; that it resents Red China’s
pretensions at being the true in
terpreter of Marxism; that it is
struggling against Red China’s
maneuvers to supplant it as the
center of the Red world.
It is said that Russia could
pull the economic strings a lit
tle tighter on Peking, although
it is said to have largely cut
off military and economic help
in 1960. The new move would
be in the field of oil. Red
China is said to get one-third
of the oil it uses, and all of
its aviation gasoline, from Red
Russia. But in this connection,
some experts insist that it is
Peking that is trying to force
the break with Moscow, while
attempting to put the blame on
the latter. This, they say, in
dicates that Red China feels it
can get its oil elsewhere.
Nikita Khrushchev has liken
ed the differences between Pek
ing and Moscow to a spat be
tween husband and wife. He
said that if a capitalist "tries
to put his nose into our busi
ness” the two would come to
gether and fight the capitalist.
An observer here who believes
the dispute is real carried this
simile a little farther. He said
the disputants are now fighting
"over the custody of the
children.” He meant they are
fighting to see who will have
leadership of the communist
parties that exist in scores of
countries outside Soviet Russia
and Red China.
Some predict that two spheres
of communist influence will re
sult—one in Asia and one in
Europe—with Soviet Russia
turning to the West.
No “Explosion” Vietnam Seminary
SAN FRANCISCO, (NC)—
Fears of overpopulation in the
United States have no basis in
fact according to Karl Brandt,
director of the Stanford Uni
versity Food Research Insti
tute.
A former member of Presi
dent Eisenhower’s Council of
Economic Adversers, Brandt
insists that even with 180 mil
lion people in the U. S. today
it is seriously underpopulated.
Even with double the popu
lation it would not be over-
populated and would, in fact,
have a much higher level of liv
ing, he said.
SAIGON, Vietnam, (NC)—The
new junior seminary of Hue was
dedicated and its chapel conse
crated (June 28) during cele
brations marking the episcopal
silver jubilee of Archbishop
Peter Ngo dinh Thuc of Hue.
The seminary, called Hoan
Thein Seminary after two beati
fied Vietnamese martyrs, can
accommodate 250 students.
The Archbishop’s two-day
jubliee celebrations in his See
city of Hue were preceded by
a solemn pontifical Mass (June
27) in the basilica of La-Vang,
shrine of Our Lady and tradi
tional place of pilgrimage.
Archbishop Ngo dinh Thuc is
a brother of President Ngo dinh
Diem of the Republic of Viet
nam.
Blesses Fishing Fleet Po P e Praises Irish
ing government appropriate X
dollars per year per child, to be
paid to whatever school
the parents selected — thus
leaving education as a private-
initiative, competitive function,
even though financed in large
part by taxes. But that was
not done; government "went in
to the school business.”
The inevitable consequence
was what we now have—a sit
uation in which the consciences
of children sent to public school
under a compulsory-education
law are safeguarded from co
ercion, but in which all the chil
dren are left with virtually noth
ing in the way of formal relig
ious and moral enlightenment
in school. This is not to call
the public schools "godless” or
anything of the sort; they aren’t.
But they are caught in a ter
rible bind.
IT IS NOW up to the people
to solve the problem in oneway
or another. Surely we cannot
face the fearful thought of gen
eration after generation emerg
ing from the schools religiously
uneducated. And the talk about
religion being the business
of the home and the church won’t
do. Religion and morality are
also the business of any educa
tion fully worthy of the name.
The home and the church can’t
do it all—any more than they
can teach all the youngsters
arithmetic or civics. We must
address ourselves in earnest to
the problem of making education
all that it ought to be—which
means that it must hand along
the theological and moral her
itage of our fathers.
GLOUCESTER, Mass., (NC)
—Bishop Charles P. Greco of
Alexandria, La., officiated at
the annual blessing of the Italian
fishing fleet in this seaport city,
climaxing a three-day cele
bration of the Feast of St.
Peter, patron of the fishing
colony.
Bishop Greco, standing on
a platform overlooking the fog-
enshrouded harbor, called out
the name of each fishing vessel
and recited the following in
vocation: "Bless these boats
and those who sail thereon.
Stretch forth to them Thy right
hand as Thou did to Peter and
his fishermen. Keep them safe
from every peril.”
The Louisiana prelate led
a two-mile street procession in
which a huge statue of St. Peter
was carried by captains of 16
fishing boats. The Bishop urged
the fishermen to pay homage
to their patron all year along,
"not just at fiesta time.”
VATICAN CITY, (NC)—His
Holiness Pope Paul VI received
President Eamon de Valera of
Ireland and praised the * ‘un
flinching loyalty of its (Ire
land’s) people to this Aposto
lic See in spite of dungeon,
fire and sword.”
The Pontiff met with the Irish
President (July 2) little more
than an hour after he had re
ceived President Kennedy.
Pope Paul also praised Ire
land for the large number of
its vocations, particularly those
for work in the missions.
Noodle Priest
WASHINGTON, (NC)—Famed
"Noodle Priest” Msgr. John
Romaniello, M. M., of Hong
Kong got FPC (fish protein con
centrate) in noodles, bread and
cookies served at a luncheon
given in his honor by Secre
tary of the Interior Stewart
Udall.
FPC, a flour-like powder
made from fish, contains nearly
all the essential amino acids
necessary for human health. Se
cretary Udall believes it can be
used to fill the hunger gap for
millions throughout the world.
Udall said: "By utilizing the
unharvested fish in United
States waters alone, enough fish
protein concentrate can be ob
tained to provide supplemental
animal protein for one billion
people for 300 days at a cost
of less than half a cent a day
per person.”
Blind Priest
Ordained
ARRAS, France, (NC)—A
blind priest, Father Bernard
Delaby, has been ordained here
(June 29). Stricken with dia
betes as a youth, the new priest
gradually lost the sight of both
eyes during his studies as a
seminarian.
Tax-Paid
Mutilation
SEOUL, Korea, (NC)—The,
Korean Ministry of Health and’
Social Affairs is offering to doi
22,000 free vasectomies—
sterilization operations for.
men—on volunteers during the
month of July. All expenses wilL
be paid by the government for
the operation.
The ministry urged two cate
gories to accept the offer. Those
with three or more children,
who want to improve their liv- ,|
ing standards, and those who for I
health reasons do not want any 1
more children.
(By David Q. Liptak)
Q. As an adult Catholic lay
man with a college background,
I think I am sufficiently aware
of my obligation to keep as well
informed about my religion as I
possibly can. But to what limits
must I go in order to meet this
obligation? Can they be spelled
out? To what degree is neglect
along these lines culpable?
A. One’s grasp of the Catholic
Faith should be proportionate to
one’s knowledge in general. De
liberate neglect in this area
would certainly amount to a cul
pably sinful attitude. As Father
Bernard Haering writes in his
"The Law of Christ” (Volume
II): " Even the educated man
sins by such neglect if in mat
ters of religion his knowledge
is altogether disproportionate
to his cultural standing in other
spheres.”
THE SIN CAN be magnified by
extrinsic circumstances, of
course. Parents, for example,
must keep especially well in
formed in order to instruct their
own children in doctrine and
morals.
TO SPELL OUT these princi
ples in the concrete would bei
extremely difficult because*
every case is unique. This much [
can be said with reference to the i
specific question posed, how-1
ever: an adult who possesses 1
a college background can hardly
hold himself excused for going
through life with merely a high
school grasp of his religion.
Q. To derive all the spiritual
benefits possible from dailyat-^
tendance at Mass, what must
one do? I follow the missal
practically every morning, and
make a brief thanksgiving after
Mass. Are there any other pray
ers I should say?
A. Unlike the sacraments,
which produce their effects ex
opere operato—i.e., of them
selves and without fail, provid
ed no obstacle is placed in their
path—the fruits of the Mass are
experienced in accordance with
the inward dispositions of those
who attend or assist at theHol>
Sacrifice. Chief among these
dispositions are faith and love.
"In every Mass there are infi
nite possibilities for us of per
fection and holiness,” wrote:
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Vol. 44
Thursday, July 11, 1963
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