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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- (Continued on Page 5) 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: (Continued on Page 5) The Southern Cross P. O. BOX 180, SAVANNAH. GA. Vol. 44 Thursday, July 11, 1963 No. 2 Published weekly except the last week in July and the last week in December by The Southern Cross, Inc. Subscription price $3.00 per year. Second class mail privileges authorized at Monroe, Ga. Send notice of change of address to P. O. Box 180, Savannah, Ga. Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough, D.D.J.C.D., President Rev. Francis J. Donohue, Editor John Markwalter, Managing Editor Rev. Lawrence Lucree, Rev. John Fitzpatrick, Associate Editors