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/ Obituraries Mrs. Joseph Steeg SAVANNAH —Funeral ser vices for Mrs. Joseph Steeg were held at Blessed Sacra ment Church on July 20th. Survivors include two daugh ters, Mrs. Douglas N. Eller Sr. and Miss Margaret Steeg, both of Jacksonville, Fla.; a brother, John W. Gleason, Sa vannah, Ga.; a niece, three grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. James Mura AUGUSTA — Funeral ser vices for James Joseph Mura were held July 22nd at St. Patrick’s Church conducted by Father Colm Moriarity. Survivors include a niece, Mrs. John McDonald of Augusta and a nephew, Henry Mura of Augusta. In Savannah OGLETHORPE MARBLE & GRANITE CO. East Broad at Waldburg St. Irvine Henderson ^/Funeral Home PH. AD. 2-7181 Irvine C. Henderson Irvine C. Henderson, Jr. James E. Henderson, III 121 W. Hall St. SAVANNAH James J. McCarthy SAVANNAH — Funeral ser vices for Mr. James Joseph McCarthy were held July 25th at the Blessed Sacrament Church. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. James W. Atkins of Beau mont, Texas; two sisters, Mrs. W. J. Macher and Miss Ade laide Curry; a brother, Fran cis P. Curry; four grandchil dren and several nieces and nephews. Mrs. DeZoort SAVANNAH — Funeral ser vices for Mrs. Lavina Judge DeZoort were held July 30th at Sacred Heart Church. Surviving are two daughters, Dr. Edith DeZoort of Atlanta and Mrs. Robert Hovle of El Paso, Texas; two sons, William DeZoort Jr. and Frank A. De Zoort; and six grandchildren. Mrs. Peter Pek AUGUSTA — Funeral ser vices for Mrs. Peter Pek were held July 24th at St. Joseph Church. Father Thaddeus Mi- chota officiating. Survivors include two dauth- ters, Mrs. Mary Dwyer, Au gusta, and Mrs. Helen Noga, Orlando, Fla.; two grandchil dren, Mrs. Dorothy Czikowsky, Bowling Green, Ky.; and George Noga Jr., Orlando, Fla.; and a great-grandchild. C/'iN AUGUSTA . . . MEMORIALS S.R. KELLY & SON, INC. 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Mr. Matthews was the holder of the Papal Medal "Pro ec- clesia et pontifice,” given for services rendered to the Church and Holy See. He was active in the Holy Name Society and Legion of Mary at the time of his death. He organized the Colored Ca tholic Laymen Association of Georgia and served as its pre sident for 10 years and for four years was chairman of the exe cutive board. Mr. Matthews was a member of the Holy Name So ciety and Knights of St. Peter Claver. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sadie Crump Matthews, three sons, Edgar Matthews Jr., Boston, Mass., Robert Al fred, Walnut Creek, Calif., and Thomas Michael, U. S. Air Force, stationed in Texas; five daughters, Mrs. Shelman Por ter, Berkley, Calif., Mrs. The resa Brooks, Roosevelt, L. I., Mrs. Lelia Anne Olds, Augusta, Mrs. Sadie F. Gray, Bayonne, N. J., and Mrs. Laura Mar shall, Huntingdon, L. I., and 20 grandchildren. Jasper T. Minor AUGUSTA — Funeral ser vices for Mr. Jasper T. Minor were conducted July 26th at Sacred Heart Church by Father Joseph M. Gillepsie. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mattie Medlock Minor, Augusta; two sisters, Mrs. Ida Bryan, Edgefield, S. C., and Mrs. Queen Chastain, Miami, Fla.; and a number of neices and nephews. James L. Baeon, Sr. ALBANY — Mr. James L. Bacon, Sr., of Albany, Ga., died July 24. Besides his wife, the former Kate Mock, he is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Robert Slate; two sons, James L. Ba con, Jr., and Dr. William H. Bacon, and five grandchildren. Funeral services were con ducted in St. Teresa’s Church on July 25th by Rev. Marvin J. LeFrois. QUESTION BOX (Continued from Page 4) than 300 inhabitants, that the city was built lengthwise from north to south, and that its cli mate was “somewhat unhealth ful, being very cold in winter, with freezes, and excessively hot in summer.’’ At that time the parish of St. Augustine— the oldest parish in the United States proper—was flourishing. THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY of the introduction of Christian civilization in what is now the United States will be commem orated in 1965. Plans for the observance are being made by the St. Augustine Foundation, a non-profit foundation with head quarters at the Mission of Nom- bre de Dios, P. O. Box 868, St. Augustine, Florida. Q. The term “religious state:’’ what does it imply be sides vows? A. The religious state involv es four elements. One is a stable mode of life. The second is a common life; i.e., membership in an approved institute. The third and fourth are ob servance of the evangelical counsels of poverty, chasity and obedience; and commitment by vows. Christian Fresco KHARTOUM, Sudan, (NC) — The Sudan’s postal department has issued a stamp with a re production of a well-preserved .fresco of the Blessed Virgin. The fresco comes from the ruins of a church at Wadi- Halfa, 440 miles northwest of here on the right bank of the Nile. The Sudanese government brought frescoes from the church, which dates from the early Christian centuries, to Khartoum because the ruins are threatened by the waters of the Aswari reservior. TERMITES SWARMING? POPE PAUL GREETS ITALIAN PRESIDENT—The visit of Italian President Antonio Segni to the Holy See on July 24, was the fifth by a head of state during the first month’s reign of Pope Paul VI. After an elaborate ceremonial protocol, he was received (above) in private by the Pope for 35 minutes. Pope Paul cited the occasion as tangible proof of the good working relations between th e Apostolic See and the Italian State. (NC Pho tos) Pope Says Italian President’s Visit Shows Friendly Tie VATICAN CITY, (NC), His Holiness Pope Paul VI stressed that the state visit of Italian President Antonio Segni to the Holy See was tangible proof of the good working relations be tween Church and State. President Segni’s visit (July 24) was the fifth by a head of state during the Pope’s month-long reign. The others were President John F. Kenne dy, President Eamon de Val era of Ireland, President Joao Goulart of Brazil and King Bau- douin of Belgium. The visit of Italy’s chief of state was taken by Vatican ob servers as forecasting apossi- ble return visit by Pope Paul, to the Italian Presidential Pa lace, the Quirinal. After an elaborate cere monial protocol, President Segni was received in private by the Pope for 35 minutes. Following this, in an address televised throughout Italy, Pope Paul noted that this was the third time within a year that President Segni had been re ceived at the Vatican on a state visit. • The first was his July 3, 1962, visit to Pope John XXIII after his election as President of Italy, and the second his visit to present the Balzan Peace Prize to Pope John. Pope Paul remarked: “This meeting, coming so rapidly and befittingly after the first two, demonstrates to us, and to whoever wishes to take note of its most obvious and important aspect , the perfect normality of the relations that exist between this Apostolic See and the Italian State.’’ The Pontiff added that Pre sident Segni’s presence, his motives for coming and the of ficial character of the visit were “a clear proof of the peaceful and happy equilibrium which the Lateran Pacts. . . established between the two supreme powers, ecclesiastical and civil, here in Rome, where their convergence is almost charac teristic and their coexistence most delicate.’’ The Latern Pacts referred to by the Pope were concluded in 1929 and established the Agitation (Continued from Page 3) The strategists in this cam paign aim at frightening, in veigling and high pressuring Washington into a policy help ful to their purpose. No matter what concession the government may make, the leaders of the Inter-Sect Com mittee will reject them or al lege that the promise has been broken or make new claims. Apparently they intend to pro voke and exasperate the gov ernment to a point where it will make an angry blunder of disastrous magnitude. Accordingly they attempt to hold demonstrations in city streets without police permits. They have gone on well adver tized hunger strikes and even incited a public ritual suicide, a stratagem they threaten to repeat. Whenever they stage some spectacular demonstra tion, they make sure to have a Greek chorus of journalists, especially foreign correspon dents, on the scene. They make a special effort to play to the American audience, because they know that the government here is heavily dependent on American aid. So they carry banners with slogans in English (“The Free World and the U. S. Must Help the Buddhist’’) and they tell the foreign correspondents: “Bring your cameras.” The Buddhists made an ob vious attempt to involve the United States government on their side this month. A bonze (Buddhist monk), wearing his monk’s robes, dashed into the American embassy with a peti tion and dashed in again when police tried to grab him as he left. For some time that day he was a news-making fugitive forced to seek asylum in the immunity of American terri tory. His adventure was entirely unnecessary. His letters could have been delivered by him self or any of his associates, dressed in ordinary clothes, like any other messenger carrying papers in Saigon offi ces. The Buddhist dissidents have been helped enormously by po lice measures intended to res train them. The nervous closing of streets around pagodas and other excessive security pre cautions have irritated the gen eral population and won sympa thy for the Buddhists. Far worse have been the ruthless on slaughts made by the police on bonzes and their supporters who refused to disperse. These demonstrators were acting un lawfully, to be sure, but the force used against them was out of all proportion. The great majority of the Buddhists taking part in these activities wear the brown, saf fron or grey robes of bonzes or bonzesses. Not all of these, however, are actually bonzes. A Buddhist spokesman admitted, on July 20, that of some 260 robe-wearing persons arrested for illegal demonstrations on July 16; “most of us are stu dents , either from government schools or Buddhist Associa tion schools.” A bonze told this correspon dent that for 100 young men, preparing to be monks, in an important pagoda here, there would be no classes for two months. The students were “to help the bonzes in the struggle” during that time. The organization and tactics seen in this “struggle” have puzzled many Vietnamese and foreign observers. “Bonzes never acted like this before,” a Vietnamese woman who was a Buddhist until a few years ago remarked. “I’ve never known bonzes to behave like this,” a veteran diplomat commented. “There’s some thing else besides Buddhism in this,” is a remark often heard in Saigon. There is no proof as far as this correspondent knows, that the “something else” is com munism. The communists are probably trying to profit by the situation but they do not seem to control it. Probably various opposition groups have teamed up with the protesting Buddhists and by now may be master-minding them. The attitude of the Buddhist Inter-Sect Committee towards the government has become al most that of an equal, a sover eign state dealing with a state. What kind of state would em erge, if their efforts were suc cessful is not clear. It might resemble Laos, for a while, or Ceylon. And then it might be gin to resemble North Vietnam, here Vietnamese Communists rule and Chinese communists look over their shoulders. independence of the State of Vatican City. The Pope spoke of Vatican City as “the minute seat of Our temporal sovereignty, the sign and instrument of the indepen dence of Our universal spiritual mission.” He continued: “In our opinion (this official visit) means that, where juri dical terms are solemn and very clear in defining and dis tinguishing respectively the sa cred and intangible spheres of Church and State, the historic cultural and religious terms— in a word, the human and real terms—of the two^same real ities reveal and require a deep moral communion. It would be antihistorical and harmful to repudiate this communion, while on the other hand it will be a mutual duty and to mutual interests to foster and promote it nobly.” In expressing his wishes for Italy’s freedom and inde pendence, Pope Paul added the wish that it “not consider its incomparable and - religious heritage as a burden left over from past centuries, but rather' ars a source of con stantly youthful energies for its new culture and modern development.” He stated: “May it be the glory and for tune of Italy not only to call itself Catholic, but to feel and really be Catholic.” In an exchange of gifts after the audience, the Pope gave the President a silver-framed au tographed picture of himself, a mosaic copy of the image of Our Lady of the Romans which is venerated in the city’s Ba silica of St Mary Major, and a gold medal commemorating his coronation. President Segni gave the Pope a 17th-century monstrance of silver set with precious stones. Knights Hold Picnic For Altar Boys WARNER ROBINS — Sacred Heart Council 4371 held its an nual picnic July 27th for the al tar boys of Sacred Heart Church and Robins Air Force Base Chapel. The day started out with a swim at one of the base pools and was followed by a barbecued chicken dinner with all the trim mings. Guests at the dinner in cluded Rev. Robert Brennan, Chaplains John Kastigar and Cornelius McLaughlin and three Sisters of the Presentation. Races were held after the meal, then a golf-ball hitting contest. The last event of the day was a softball game won by the team captained by Dale Trombley, while Lee McKin ley headed the losers. Randal Carnes, Chairman of the Council’s Youth Committee, handled the preparation of the food, assisted by George Geof- froy, Conrad Kalbfleisch, Wil liam Riordan, Jack Ellis, Grand Knight Joe Dembowski and James Dembowski. First From Pittsburgh TAMALE, Ghana, (NC) — Miss Helen Celko of Pittsburgh, the first volunteer under a lay apostolate program sponsored by Bishop John J. Wright of Pittsburgh, has arrived here to serve as secretary to Quebec -born Bishop Gabriel Champagne, W. F., of Tamale. The Southern Cross, August 1, 1963—PAGE 5 Jottings (Continued from Page 4) veloped areas of the world. At home here in Rhode Island, we have recently seen a moving ex ample of this theme of man’s great generosity to his fellow man. This story was written by Mildred McCormick and Flo rence McManus, two telephone operators, who took 11 young friends “who happen to be Ne groes” off on vacation with the. The youngsters were members of a Martin de Porres soft ball team and the telephone op- Pope Sends Aid To Victims Of Earthquake VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC) —His Holiness Pope Paul VI has sent emergency aid and messages to Yugolsavia ex pressing his sympathy over the loss of life and the damage to earthquake- striken Skyplje. The telegrams were sent to Archbishop Josip Ujcic of Belgrade and Bishop Smiljan Cekada of Skoplje. The message to Archbishop Ujcic said in part: “We share wholeheartedly in the sorrow of the noble Yugoslav nation . . . and We ask you to communi cate to all the ecclesiatical and civil authorities and to your beloved people the expression of Our sentiments.” The second message, sent to Bishop Cekada, was signed by Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, Pa pal Secretary of State, in be half of the Pope, saying: “The Pontiff intimately shares the grief caused by the cruel earthquake which de stroyed your city and your re gion and, mourning with you over the death of so many, he recommends with fervent pray ers their souls to the divine mercy and embraces the wound ed with paternal affection. . . to help you provide for the most urgent needs the Vicar of Christ sends an emergency contribu tion to assist the most needy families.” erators were their coaches. When it came time for them to go on vacation down at Point Judith with a week of hot dog roasts, days by the sea, a trip to Block Island, they took along their, young friends for a week they would not soon forget. A former student of mine who has done a most remarkable job at a hospital in Omaha wrote: “With all the personal heart breaks, the spiritual and phy sical and mental challenges I’ve had, I feel stronger and closer to God.” There are probably other sto ries like these in this one sec tion of the vineyard of the world. They are heartening to read and hear about. Mankind appears straight, tall and shin ing when trouble comes in the form of sickness, death . . . or, worse than all the ugliness of prejudice is seen. We don’t see or accent the good too often, here are stories of great ness in a man and woman ac cepting their blindness, and two young women devoting their va cation period ot a group of Ne gro children. MOTOR HOTEL • TV St AIR CONDITIONING • FAMOUS MIAMI BUFFET • ICE St BEVERAGE STATIONS • COFFEE MAKER, EACH ROOM LUCKIE AT CONE ST. A Good Address in Atlanta FIVE ACRES FOR GOD TFLLICHERRY, India. O ON THE SHORES OF THE ARABIAN SEA is the city of Seventy miles from this southerh In dian seaport lies the little colony of x \ THOTTUMUKKU, a new settlement \ \ ^ ... Land prices are low and the ' >’ poorest settlers have gone to make their homes there. The Bishop of TELLICHERRV tells us about them: “All they have for religious services is a poor thatched shed which serves as church, rectory and Sunday school . . . About 400 children attend classes. The people have collected money for five acres for a church and small presbytery and are willing to give any amount of their labor to build them . . . They need $3,000 for materials for buildings large enough to serve three hundred families . . Can we give any assistance, asks the Bishop, to these sincere Christians working to establish a new and belter life for their families? A dollar in THOTTOMUKKU means much more than- a dollar in America . . . Any amount you can send therefore will be a, substantial help. But please hurry—THOTTOMUKKU’s 400 children are growing up fast! The Holy Father’s Mission Aid for the Orieittal Church k> PREPARING FOR SCHOOL? Hardly, if we mean our re-! luctant young scholai's to whom vacation stretches into the hazy distances of September! But for some students freedom - from studies is a tragedy; not a boon . . . We mean those semi- i narians and Sistex’s preparing for their vocations in the 18- countries of the Near and Middle East, always in fear that they, won't have sufficient money to finish their training . . . We have, the names of many of them: JOHN KUPERTINE VELIYIL- f PARAMPIL and CHRYSOSTOM THOMAS PLAVUNIKUN. NATHIL of Bangalore, India, and SISTER ALAXIA and SIS TER XAVIER of the CARMELITE SISTERS of Kothamangalam, India. You can sponsor one of them by sending $100 a year for I he six yeai’s of a seminarian’s training or $150 for each of the two yeai’s necessai'y for a Sister . . . Money can be sent in instalments. You will have the wonderful feeling of partici pating in the good these futui’e missionaries will do! WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A STATUE? Some famous persons do become statues, reminding their countrymen of great deeds and accomplishments from genera tion to generation! Another kind of “statue” is a MEMORIAL CHAPEL or SCHOOL in some missionary territory dispensing grace and knowledge for years to come. You can arrange such a liviivg MEMORIAL for yourself or a loved one through our Association. SOME SUGGESTIONS: CHAPEL ($2,000 to $6,000); SCHOOL ($2,500); MASS KIT ($100); CHALICE ($40); VESTMENTS ($50); CIBORIUM ($40); ALTAR ($75); MONSTRANCE ($40). PLEASE REMEMBER US IN YOUR WILL. Our legal title: THE CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION. Kindly keep sending us your Mass stipends. Often they are the only support of our missionaries. Religion pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to give aid to orphans and widows in- their tribulations . . . so says St. James in his Epistle! In the NEAR and MIDDLE EAST, our SISTERS, BROTHERS and PRIESTS are valiantly looking after thousands of orphans, giving them a home, food, clothing and love . . . Our ORPHANS BREAD CLUB is an easy way for you to help them. All we ask is a prayer a day and $1 a month and you can send it when able . . . Other CLUBS look after other needs: DAMIEN LEPER CLUB (cares for lepers); MONICA GUILD (provides chalices, etc. for chapels and churches); PALACE OF GOLD (provides for aged); THE BASILIANS (supports', schools); MARY'S BANK (trains Sisters). Sst OlissionsjMl FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN* President Mtqr. Joseph T. Ryan, Nat’l Sec’y Send all communications to: CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION 480 Lexington Ave. at 46th St. New York 17, N. Y, ‘19 rri A jO (T t? IO