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I f f PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, July 18, 1963 Protestant, Catholic Churchmen Say SOUTH AFRICA FACES “VIOLENT DISASTER” BIRMINGHAM, England, (NC) —The senior British Catholic prelate has joined with Angli can and other Protestant lead ers in warning the South Afri can government that it faces the possibility of ‘ ‘violent dis aster” in its new repressive race legislation. The Bantu Laws amendments in South Africa place severe restrictions on movements of non-white workers in the coun try’s urban areas, and impose other controls to enforce a rigid separation of races. Archbishop Francis J.Grim- shaw of Birmingham, as senior member of the Catholic Hier archy of England and Wales, signed the statement of protest declaring that the South African government has ‘ ‘gone even far ther than in previous legislation towards removing one of the main foundations on which civil ization is built, namely the liberty of the individual.” The statement continued: '‘Unless there is a reversal of this trend, based as it is upon the fear which the minority feel for the majority of the country’s inhabitants, we can see nothing in the end but violent diaster. “We beg the present rulers to take heed before it is too late and we express the most urgent hope that patience will yet prevail among the non-Eu ropean population.” Book ‘Obscene’ NEW YORK, (NC)--A charge of obscenity has been brought against the book “Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure,” better known as “Fanny Hill,” published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons. The charge is being pressed by Corporation Counsel Leo A. Larkin and the district attor neys of New York’s five coun ties. Larkin said he and the attorneys had examined the book. “We all found it obscene,” he said. SAVANNAH THE REXCO LIFETIME SYSTEM Royal Exterminating Company • FREE INSPECTION • GUARANTEED PROTECTION "We are Best against your Pests Give us a Trial, You be the Judge" MEMBER OF B & F ENTERPRISES Phone 233-3331 819 Montgomery Savannah Georgia State Savings Bank /)P ) Savannah's Largest and Oldest Savings Bank BANK BY MAIL SERVICE Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Bull & York Streets Complete A T. S. CHU Savannah Beach C'J James A. Goethe Distributing Co. Savannah, Georgia POPE PRAISES UN PEACE EFFORTS—Pope Paul VI greets U.N. General Secretary, U Thant, during an audience on July 11. Speaking in English, His Holiness praised the United Nations for its efforts for world peace. Assisting is Msgr. Mario Nasalli Rocca, the Pope’s Maestro di Cam era. The Pope presented Mr. U. Thant with a commemor ative medal.--(NC Photos) U. N. Result Of Civilization For Which Church Gave Basic Tenets, Pope Tells U Thant VATICAN CITY, (NC)—Pope Paul VI said in receiving the secretary-general of the United Nations that the Holy See re gards the U. N. as the fruit of a civilization for which the Church provided the basic prin ciples. The Pope received U Thant in private audience (July 11) for a half hour and praised the U. N. for its efforts for world peace. He spoke in English. He said that the U. N. “is a historical reality of too great importance to leave Us indif ferent to this meeting with you.” “The Holy See, which you are visiting today in Our humble person,” Pope Paul continued, “holds a very high conception of that international organiza tion. It considers it to be the fruit of a civilization to which the Catholic religion, with its driving center in the Holy See, gave the vital principles. ‘ ‘It considers it an instrument of brotherhood between nations, which the Holy See has always desired and promoted, and hence a brotherhood intended to favor progress and peace among men. It considers the United Nations as the steadily developing and improving form of the balanced and unified life of all humanity in its historical and earthly order.” Calling attention to the mul tiple and diverse ideologies of those belonging to the U. N., the Pope said the “Catholic Church regards them with due attention.” He then said that the pre sence of so many races and states in a single organization “is a fact which the Holy See considers as corresponding to its concept of humanity, and included within the area of its spiritual mission in the world.” SAVANNAH TEACHER AT LANGUAGE INSTITUTE Geraldine Inez Spaulding, 1136 West 49th St., Savannah, a teacher of Spanish in the Frank W. Spencer school, is among 60 teachers of Spanish and German from 19 states who are attend ing a National Defense Foreign Language institute at the Uni versity of Minnesota this sum mer. The eight-week seminar for elementary school teachers of German and Spanish which opened June 17 will run through August 10. It is sup ported by the National Defense Education Act and the United States Office of Education’s langauge development program. Anti-Discrimination OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklaho ma, (NC)—Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and Jewish clergy men issued a joint statement here condemning racial discri mination. Bishop Victor J. Reed of Ok lahoma City and Tulsa signed the joint resolution which also calls for recognition of “the validity and essential rightness of the massive acts of protest which have developed in re sponse to continued injustice and practices of racial discri mination in American life.” Designed to increase the par ticipants’ familiarity with the langauge they teach, and to ac quaint them with new teaching methods and materials, the in stitute is taught by University of Minnesota staff members and visiting experts. Lecture courses of language and culture are integrated with conversational practice under the direction of native speakers. General and applied linguistics also are in the curriculum. Twin City elementary school students, interested in learning Spanish or German, will be pupils of the language teachers during the last five weeks of the institute when the teachers will do practice teaching with the youngsters based on the new techniques observed in demon stration classes. The University of Minne sota’s language laboratory is being used to help the teachers themselves to become more proficient in German and Span ish and to familiarize them selves with methods of using the laboratory in teaching. Director of the Institute is Gerhard H. Weiss, University assistant pofessor of German. Assistant director is Robert Estelle, teaching assistant in the Romance language depart ment. Welcome To The i f V * ua X ■■luiillMlIlitBU A First Class Hotel Traveler's "First Choice" for Downtown Comfort WHERE YOU CAN GET ROOMS FOR $3.50 & up Single $5.00 & up Double 250 Rooms —250 Baths Circulating Ice Water In All Rooms 3 MEETING ROOMS FAMOUS LUCKIE ST. AT CONE Atlanta, Georgia JA. 5-3501 Anna Gets New Lease On Life By A1 Antczak (N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE) LOS ANGELES—Maria An- tonietta Moretti is a pretty girl with dark eyes, black hair, a mind that has often medi tated on heaven and eternity —and, now, a new lease on life. At 24 each heartbeat remind ed that she had but a year or two to live. Her heart had an aortic valve that did not close properly and permit the blood to flow back into the heart after each heartbeat. Her new lease on life was negotiated here through St. Vincent’s Hospital and heart surgeons of the University of Southern California School of medicine. On May 17 Miss Moretti un derwent a four-hour open heart operation in which a plastic ball valve was inserted in her heart to replace the defective aortic valve with which she was bom. Now she is scheduled for one more medical examination by Dr. Jerome Harold Kay, chief of cardiac surgery at USC and St. Vincent’s, who performed the operation. The examination will determine when she can go home to Rimini, Italy, and her job as a high school teacher there. How Miss Moretti was able to come from Italy to Los An geles for surgery is a story that manifests the workings of Divine Providence. One of Dr. Kay’s heart sur gery students at USC is Dr. Giuseppe Maselli - Campagna. He became engaged here to an American girl and last Christ mas took her home to Italy to meet his family. Friends told Miss Moretti about Dr. Maselli and she went to see him at Bari, where he teaches in the university's sur gical pathology department. Dr. Maselli told her there was hope—if she could get to Los Angeles. The Provincial Superior of the Daughters of Charity of Siena wrote about Miss Moret ti’ s case to Sister Marguerite, admistrator of St. Vincent’s Hospital here. The Sisters ar ranged free hospitalization for her and the surgeons donated the operation. “It took courage for Maria to flyto Los Angeles alone,” Dr. Maselli szid here, “but she had only one or two years to live without this operation. When she left Italy only a few people there thought we could help her. But all you have to do is look at her now to see she is doing fine.” HEADS SERRA GROUP— Some 2,000 persons, including 37 members of the hierarchy attended the 21st Serra In ternational convention in San Francisco (July 7-10). Mat thew H. McCloskey, III, (above) of Philadelphia is the new president of the organi zation founded in 1938 to fos ter and assist in the educa tion of young men for the priesthood.—(NC Photos) CLOSING- (Continued from Page 1) ment,” he continued, “is for every parish to do whatever it can with the physical means available.” As a result, he said, “we have big festivals, raffles, tithing, parish drives, and all the other things pastors would rather not have to do— just to keep operating.” But for the future, he said, “we frankly foresee a new prin- c i p 1 e—an across-the-board cutback, determined on a dio cesan or at least an area wide scale in relation to the religious teachers available.” Dropping the first four grades, he added, would make from 400 to 500 more Sisters available for teaching in the upper grades. He explained that the lower grades were indicated for the possible cutback because “it is easier to get young child ren t o come to religious vaca tion schools and an effective program can be presented for them there.” NUN WITH A GUN—One of the main attractions at the an nual Duchesne College and Academy Festival in Omaha, Ne braska, was the sharpshooter at the cigarette shoot booth. The idea of the game was to shoot down packs of cigarettes with a cork gun. Who should turn up with the best aim and infantryman’s form? The high school show off, or the dad who thinks he’s another Sergeant York? Neither had a chance in the cork gun action against Mother Bernice Spores, a teacher at the school. The “nun with a gun” knocked down pack after pack of the “unholy smokes.” —(NC Photos) Father Weigel Says “Little Man With Vision” Solved Unity Stalemate (N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE) ST. CLOUD, Minn.—A priest-theologian related that a “little man” with a vision resolved the impasse into which the Christian ecumenical move ment had fallen. Father Gustave A. Weigel, S.J., told (July 9) an audience that included a Catholic bishop, many Protestant clergymen, Catholic priests, Sisters and lay persons the same “little man,” the late Pope John XXIII, ‘ 'destroyed any remaining sus picion of ecumenism” within the Catholic Church. Father Weigel, professor at Woodstock, (Md.) College, ap peared in a lecture at St. Cloud State College here sponsored by the St. Cloud Visitor, dioce san weekly newspaper. He said that before Pope John the ecu menical movement, which ori ginated with Protestant groups, had reached the point where representative groups of sep arate Christian bodies were meeting and speaking with one another in a friendly manner, “but it was always our bunch— and your bunch.” Their inability to overcome the “our bunch-your bunch” outlook, Father Weigel said, had led them into a blind alley. “Then comes the little man who feels that Christianity is in crisis because Christian wit ness is getting weaker,” he said. Pope John insisted that all Christians must give witness to all men, Father Weigel, said, thus breaking down the barriers of separateness. Father Weigel said the ecu menical movement is still in flux, but has “tremendous pos sibilities for good.” He distinguished between what he called “the scope and the hope” of the ecumenical movement. “We cannot, our selves, make the single united church,” he said. He defined the scope of the ecumenical movement as “the churches coming together, through their representatives, to speak as brother to brother in true conversation.” * ‘They must both be eager to learn as much as to teach,” Father Weigel said, “to give witness and to hear witness.” The “act of hope and trust in the good God’ ’ follows on the conversation, he said. In answer to a question, Fa ther Weigel said he saw no danger of a rift within the Ca tholic Church resulting from conservative and progressive tendencies. If a too ‘ ‘ stubborn adherence to past formulas” develops, he said, the pope can head it off with an admonition. Bishop Lambert Hoch of \i°/y Brinson Exterminating Co. Complete Pest Control Service SURETY BONDED EL. 5-1661 Or EL. 5-0492 Savannah Sioux Fall, S. D., led the gather ing in the recitation of the Our Father after the lecture. NOTICE The Southern Cross will be on vacation next week. The next edition will be issued on August 1st. Obituaries Mrs. L. C. 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