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Labor Day Finds Nation
Concerned With Problem
Of Youths Seeking Work
Obituaries
M iss Helen Burns
COLUMBUS—Funeral serv
ices for Miss Helen Burns were
held August 8th at Holy Family
Church with the Rev. Arthur A.
Weltzer officiating.
Survivors are three sisters,
Mrs. W. A. Watkins, Sr., Miss
Margaret Burns, and Miss
Adele Burns, all of Columbus
and several nieces and nephews.
Mrs. L. R.
Massengale
AUGUSTA — Funeral ser
vices for Mrs. L. R. Massen
gale were held August 16th at
St. Mary’s-On-The-Hill. Rt.
Rev. Monsignor Daniel J.
Bourke officiating.
Survivors include her hus
band, Dr. L. R. Massengale,
Augusta, Ga.; a brother, George
Barnes of Chicago; and a num
ber of aunts and uncles.
(By J. J. Gilbert)
WASHINGTON, (NC)—Labor
Day, by tradition, marks the
end of the vacation season and
the start of the new school year.
Approach of the holiday in
1963 sees the nation concerned
as never before with the prob
lems not only of the worker but
also of the pupil.' Automation,
discrimination and other devel
opments are decreasing job op
portunities for many of those
already in the labor force.
Young people leaving school, not
only because of their already
large and steadily increasing
numbers but also because of
their lack of training, are add
ing to the gravity of the situa
tion.
The Government has been di
recting attention to the matter,
and urging a nationwide effort
to meet its many implications.
A report issued by the Pres
ident’s Committee on Youth
Employment has revealed many
startling facts about the "di
mensions of the problem." Here
are some of them:
... It is much harder today
for a boy or girl with limited
education and training to get
a job. The number of young
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people between 16 and 21 have
greatly increased in the last
generation, and are increasing,
but the kinds of jobs they used
to fill are disappearing. Jobs
that are available today demand
more skill and training than
many of these young people can
offer.
... To hundreds of thou
sands of boys and girls between
16 and 21, "the problem is im
mediate and desparate." One
out of nine who are out of school
and in the labor force is job
less.
. . . During the school months
of 1962 between 600,000 and
800,000 young people between
16 and 21 were out of school
and looking for jobs.
. . . Twenty-six million
boys and girls will leave school
and seek jobs in the 1960’s.
This will be 40% more than in
the 1950s.
... If the current rate of
youth unemployment persists,
as the youth population increas
es, by 1970 the number of un
employed youths will be close to
11/2 million.
. . .Tn the 1960's, while the
labor force is growing so rapid
ly, the \ need for unskilled
workers will remain about the
same.
. . . About 1 in 6 of all
unemployed who are out of
school are 16 to 21 years old,
although this age group makes
up only 1 in 14 of the labor
force.
. . . Unemployment among
teenage Negro youth is double
that of white boys and girls.
... At the same time, more
education and training is being
required for jobs.
. . . School dropouts suffer
most from unemployment and
have greater difficulty in find
ing work.
There are many more facets
to the problem, many of them
eye-opening to most people.
But what has been cited would
seem sufficient to indicate that,
while the nation as a whole is
struggling with' this situation,
the best thing that young people
can do for their country and for
themselves is to stay in school
as long as they possibly can.
MISSIONERS DESIGN NEW TYPE GOSPEL TENT—Like St. Paul, the Glenmary Home
Missioners join tentmaking with preaching. Photo shows the new style tent designed by
Father Patrick O'Donnell, editor of Glenmary’s Challenge, to replace the old gospel
type tent used for the society’s summertime preaching in the Appalachian mountain re
gions. Technically a hyperbolic pataboloid form, the tent, measuring 60 by 48 feet, needs
no interior supports and has weathered several windstorms. Its frame is strong aluminum
pipe and the covering is pink and white nylon plastic. It can be erected in two hours..—(NC
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Profession And Reception
Held By Sisters Of Mercy
New Head For Medal Association
PHILADELPHIA—Rev. Don
ald L. Doyle, C. M., has been
named to succeed the late Rev.
Joseph A. Skelly, C. M., as
Director of THE CENTRAL AS
SOCIATION OF THE MIRACU
LOUS MEDAL, Germantown,
Philadelphia. F ather Skelly,
who died July 8 at the age of
89, had been the Director of the
Association since its establish
ment 48 years ago. Father Doyle
has served as Assistant Direc
tor since September, 1962.
Announcement of Father
Doyle’s selection came from
Very Rev. Sylvester A. Taggart,
C. M., Provincial of the Vicen-
tian Fathers’Eastern Province.
As Director, Father Doyle
will head a worldwide Associa
tion whose aims are to promote
devotion to the Blessed Virgin
Mary through the Miraculous
Medal, to educate young men
for the priesthood and to assist
the poor. Since its beginning in
1915, the Association has dis
seminated 75,000,000 Miracu
lous Medals and 40,000,000
Booklets. In 1930 it inaugurated
the Miraculous Medal Perpe
tual Novena, which is held week
ly in 4,500 churches and cha
pels around the world. The As
sociation has also built two ma
jor seminaries, a minor semi
nary, a novitiate and five Marian
shrines.
F ather Doyle, 42, is a native
of Brooklyn, N. Y., the son of
the late John and Magdalene
Fischer Doyle. After attending
St. John’s Preparatory School
in Brooklyn, he entered St. Jo
seph’s College, Princeton,
N. J., minor seminary of the
Vincentian Fathers, in 1939. He
pronounced his religious vows
on June 18, 1943. Having com
pleted his theological studies
at Mary Immaculate Seminary,
Northampton, Pa., he was or
dained to the priesthood in the
Cathedral of SS. Peter and
Paul, Philadelphia, by His Ex
cellency, Most Rev. J. Carroll
McCormick, D. D., present Bi
shop of Altoona-Johnstown, on
May 22, 1948.
A SNAP FOR SISTER—Snap goes the slate and Sister Cyrilla, M.H.S.H., is confidently
on camera for scene 16 in a new movie completed this summer by Geo. A. Pflaum,
Publisher, Inc., Dayton, Ohio. Titled, “The Lay Catechist," the 20-minute, color movie
introduces lay men and women to the teaching of religion and is intended to help recruit
catechists for parish CCD work. The movie had its premiere during the Liturgical Con
vention in Philadelphia, August 19-23.—(NC Photos)
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Racial Bias Dosen’t
Exist In Latin America
SANTE FE, N. M., (NC)—
“In general terms, it can be
said that racial discrimination
does not exist in Latin Amer
ica.”
This view was expressed by
Miguel Leon-Portilla, direc
tor of the Inter-American Indian
Institute, 7 Mexico City, in a
paper read at the closing ses
sion (Aug. 15) of the Catholic
Art Association convention at
St. Michael’s College here. His
paper was read by Father
Clement McNaspy, S. J., New
York associate editor of Am
erica magazine.
Leon - Portilla discussed,
“To Understand the Cultural
Reality of Latin America.” The
population of Latin America is
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about two hundred million, he
said.
Latin America, he stated,
covered nearly nine million
square miles, almost one-sixth
of the earth’s land surface—an
area nearly three times greater
than mat of the United States—
with its 20 independent nations,
in 18 of which Spanish is the
official language; in Brazil,
Portuguese; in Haiti, French.
“Racial discrimination as it
exists in countries like South
Africa or the United States is
unknown in Latin America,”
he added. He indicated that var
ious forms of discrimination
existed, but they were of a so
cial or economic character. “In
Latin America, the descen
dants of Indians or of colored
people can occupy key posts in
the life of his country, as has
happened on innumerable oc
casions,” he said.
According to Leon-Portilla,
the Latin American continent
is extremely rich not only from
the point of view of its natural
resources but also from a cul
tural angle.
“In some of the nations of the
hemisphere,” he stated, “there
were ancient civilizations that
yet today constitute cultural
roots and historic subsoil. The
Iberian influence left the seed
of Christianity and Western cul
ture.”
BALTIMORE, Md.—Four
teen Sisters of Mercy pronoun
ced temporary vows for three
years at Mass celebrated at
7:00 a.m. in the convent chapel
at Mount Saint Agnes, Balti
more, Maryland, on August 16.
Taking part in the same cere
mony were fifteen Sisters who
renewed their vows for two
years. At 3:00 p.m. on the same
day eight postulants received
the religious habit.
Monsignor Joseph A. Ells,
pastor of St. Dominic Church,
Baltimore, celebrated the Mass
and received the vows of the
Sisters. The sermon for the
occasion was preached by the
Rev. Thomas Brophy, S. J.,
Philadelphia.
Those pronouncing vows for
three years were: Sr. M. He
lene Jones, Mobile, Ala.; Sr.
M. Emil Graf, Mobile, Ala.;
Sr. M. Rosalia Wilhelm, Mo
bile, Ala.; Sr. M. Celia Kelly,
Chevy Chase, Md.; Sr. M. Ver
non Gentle, Birmingham, Ala.;
Sr. M. Thaddeus Bessman, Au
gusta, Ga.; Sr. M. Inez Hobbs,
Baltimore, Md.; Sr. M. Alexius
Mulcay, Augusta, Ga.; Sr. M.
Blaise Rhodes, Augusta, Ga.;
Sr. M. Carlos Dorman, Balti
more, Md.; Sr. M. LaSalette
Wheeley, Baltimore, Md.; Sr.
M. Ernest Harms, Savannah,
Ga.; Sr. M. Marjorie Murphy,
Baltimore, Md., and Sr. M.
Liam Kelly, Chevy Chase, Md.
The Sisters who renewed
vows were: Sr. Christina Ma
rie Daily, Savannah, Ga.jSr.M.
Estelle Kirby, Baltimore, Md.;
Sr. M. Trinita Brearton, Cin
cinnati, Ohio; Sr. M. Renata
Steinkamp, Baltimore, Md.; Sr.
Jude Marie Dyslin, Chatta
nooga, Tenn.; Sr. M. Arthur
Lucky, Augusta, Ga.; Sr. M.
Suzanne Wilhelm, Baltimore,
Md.; Sr. M. Cordette Diehl,
Baltimore, Md.; Sr.ReginaMa-
rie Donohue, Baltimore, Md.;
Sr. John Mary Biggs, Macon,
Death Takes 63
Council Fathers
Since October
j ROME, (NC) — Since the
opening of the Second Vati
can Council on October 11
last, 63 council Fathers have
died, including four cardin
als, 18 archbishops, and 41
bishops.
The dead cardinals are
Manuel Cardinal Arteaga y
Betancourt, Archbishop of
Havana; John Cardinal D'-
Alton, Archbishop of Ar
magh; William Cardinal
Godfrey, Archbishop of
Westminister; and Valerio
Cardinal Valeri, prefect of
the Sacred Congregation of
Religious.
The Americans who died
were Archbishop JohnSwint,
Bishop of Wheeling, Arch
bishop Edwin V. Byrne of
Santa Fe, Bishop Joseph
Burke of Buffalo, Auxiliary
Bishop Lawrence Schott of
Harrisburg, and Archbishop
Gerald O’Hara, Apostolic
Delegate in Great Britain.
The deaths left several
posts vacant in concilicar
commissions. Cardinal Val
eri was president of the
Commission of Religious.
Bishop Giovanni Battista
Peruzzo, C. P. of Agrigen-
to, a member of the Com
mission on Faith and Mor
als, and Bishop Albert Soe-
gijapranata, S. J., of Sema-
rang, a member of the Com
mission on the Missions,
both have died since the
council began.
Ga.; Sr. M. Benita Nickelsen,
Pensacola, Fla.; Sr. Joseph
Marie Mullen, Baltimore, Md.;
Sr. M. Joseph Ann Leverich,
New Haven, Conn.; Sr. Stephen
Marie Costello, Washington,
D. C.; and Sr. M. Chanel Fas-
ola, Savannah, Ga.
Presiding at the afternoon
ceremony, Monsignor Ells con
ferred the religious habit upon
Suzanne Irene Ryan, Malverne,
Long Island, N. Y., who will be
known in religion as Sr. M.
Carla; Doris Ann Weaver, Tar-
rytown, N. Y., Sr. M. Claudia;
Dorothy Ann Eder, Baltimore,
Md., Sr. Marlene; Mary Ca
therine Sarandria, Winchester,
Va., Sr. M. Carmela; Zilpah
Maria Hietter, Mobile, Ala.,
Sr. M. Ignace; Mary Karen
McNally, Baltimore, Md., Sr.
M. Christina; Frances Marie
Hobbs, Baltimore, Md., Sr. Jean
Marie; and Marguerite Ann
Crain, Birmingham, Ala., Sr.
M. Julia.
The Rev. James G/ Hietter,
S. J., St. Mary’s, Kansas, de
livered the sermon at the re
ception ceremony. Present in
the sanctuary were the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Roger K. Wooden, and the
Reverends Timotny Mullen, E.
Melville Taylor, Henry Zer-
husen, William B. Schmidt, Ed
ward J. Sponga, S. J., Felix
Cardegna, S. J., Cyril Draina,
Henry P. Stragisher, Bernard
F. Kirby, S. J., J. Austin Graff,
and Peter McCarthy.
Buddhist—
(Continued from page 4)
of the government. Most foreign
observers are agreed now that
the movement has a political
character.)
Thich Due Nghiep had acted
as interpreter for Madame Dieu
Hue, the elderly Bonzesswho
had been presented to foreign
correspondents as a volunteer
for burning July 23. This
correspondent asked him again
on August 11 to explain how her
proposed deed could be recon
ciled with the Buddhist moral
law against destroying any kind
of life.
"In the Theravada sect no
such self-immolation is per
mitted,” he agreed. "But in the
Mahayana sect self-immolation
is allowed to any Buddhist
monks or nuns who decide to
sacrifice themselves for the
Buddhist cause.”
(The Theravada sect, also
called Hinayana, the Lesser
Vehicle, is found in Ceylon,
Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cam
bodia and southwest Vietnam.
Most of the Vietnamese Budd
hists and those of China and
Japan belong to the Mahayana,
or Greater Vehicle, sect. Ther
avada bonzes of south Vietnam
are members of the Inter-Sect
Committee.)
"Is not Theravada closer to
the original Buddhist doc
trine?” the N.C.W.C. News cor
respondent asked.
“Yes, Theravada is more
original,” the spokesman an
swered.
“Then the Theravada Budd
hists here disapproved of Quang
Due’s action in burning him
self alive?”
“It is not permitted in
Theravada,” he repeated.
No statement of disapproval
was issued by the Theravada
Buddhists,
uddh
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The Southern Cross, August 22, 1963—PAGE 5
Doctors And Praying Friends™"—
Two Teams Worked
For Claudia
NEW ORLEANS, (NC) —
Eight-year-old Claudia Ballay
had a team of five doctors work
ing for her inside the operating
room, and a team of hundreds
praying for her outside, in
homes and churches.
The delicate kidney trans
plant for Claudia appears to be
successful, for she is walking
now for the first time in nearly
a year.
“Even non-Catholics had
their congregations praying,”
said Claudia’s mother, Mrs.
O. A. Ballay, who is the organ
ist and choirmaster in St. An
drew parish here.
At the parish, special prayers
were directed through Father
Francis Xavier Seelos, a Re-
demptorist priest who died in
New Orleans of yellow fever in
1867. Redemptorists here have
been working for years for his
beatification cause.
Last May 16 St. Andrew par
ishioners arranged for a Mass
for Claudia and afterwards
prayed at Father Seelos’ tomb.
That same day the gravely
ill girl was wheeled into a
Charity Hospital operating
room crowded with medical ex
perts, including Dr. Keith
Reemsta, associate professor
of surgery at Tulane University.
In the adjoining operating
room lay the patient from whom
a healthy kidney had to be re
moved because of another med
ical difficulty.
Since then Claudia has had two
more operations, once each to
remove her two defective kid
neys. Doctors must keep close
tab on her and it will be some
time before she can return to
school. But she’s been home
since July 16.
Claudia has been gravely ill
for a year and a half. Last May
when doctors told her parents
that a kidney transplant was
the only resort left.
“They warned that the oper
ation would be touch and go
and said I might not be
able to see her for four or
five days,” said Mrs. Ballay.
“I started crying and said,
‘Let’s go home.’ I felt Icouldn-
t go through with it. I wanted
to be with her if the end came.
“But Claudia looked at me
and said: ‘No Mama. Don't be
a sissy. We’re here now. We’re
going to stay.’
“I couldn’t back down then,”
QUESTION BOX
(Continued from Page 4)
prescribed; i.e., those attached
to certain mental ejaculations.
But when prayer in general for
the Supreme Pontiff’s intentions
is stipulated, mental prayer
alone is not sufficient.)
* * *
Q. About the recent news re
port that the Rabbinical Council
of America is planning to lend
financial assistance to a group
of Jews in Israel who are trying
to reclaim a barren mountain
—Mt. Gilboa—which was cur
sed by David in Old Testament
times: what is the Scriptural
reference?
A. Both Saul and Saul’s son,
Jonathan, died “on the heights”
of Mt. Gelboe during a battle
with the Phillistines. As a re
sult, Palestine as a whole was
left without a king.
WHEN DAVID HEARD the
news of the deaths, he summon
ed all nature to sympathize with
him in his grief by depriving
the mountain of those elements
necessary for life. The Scrip
tural reference is II Kings I:
21-27:
“MOUNTAINS OF GELBOE,
never dew, never rain fall upon
you, never from your lands be
offering made of first-fruits;
there the warrior’s shield lies
dishonored, the shield of Saul,
bright with oil no more. . .”
GELBOE is in the northern
section of Palestine, in Gali
lee.
India: Saint Sebastian Needs Help
At PURANATTUKURA, a village in the diocese of TRICHUR
in Southern India, is the parish of St. Sebastian. There are 500
The Holy Father's Mission Aid
for the Oriental Church
children in the parish needing in*
struction, but St. Sebastian has no
school—no place even for catechet
ical lessons. Nevertheless fifteen
classes have been organized. They
meet everywhere ... in the halls,
before the Blessed Sacrament, in
the priest’s house . . . The only
school in the neighborhood is that
of the Hindu monks. The boys and
girls of high school age go there
. . . But the pastor of St. Sebastian
knows he must build a school for
this parish, too recently organized
to have educational facilities. He asks help in obtaining the
modest sum of $2,000; for the rest his people will give what
they can in money and labor! . . . Father X. Akkara’s letter ex
presses his hope of a kind response. His plea is seconded by
his Bishop and the authorities in Rome . . . Soon now your
parish school will open its doors for another year. Think of the
500 youngsters of St. Sebastian huddled in hallways, and send
something to help Father Akkara . . . Any donation, large or
small, will help!
WHY INDIA?
Our work covers 18 countries where the Eastern Rites pre
dominate. Often we appear to be appealing for one country
in particular—India—ignoring the others under our care! . . .
Actually we have some fifty appeals from India before us, all
asking modest sums of $2,000 to $4,000 to build convents,
churches and schools. This is a land rich in vocations today and
Churph authorities would feel remiss indeed in not doing all
they can to foster these ipissionary parishes and so encourage
the spread of Christ’s word . . . Each week we can bring you
just one of these urgent appeals, relying on your generosity,
hoping we can help quickly enough, substantially enough!
ASIA: LAND OF HOPE. Not long ago, the NCWC news serv
ice in Washington gave a report showing the percentage of
Catholic population throughout the world. South America led
with 92.3 per cent Catholics; Central America, 80 per cent;
Western Europe, 57.3 per cent; North America, 24 per cent;
Australia, 18 per cent; Eastern Europe and Russia, 18 per cent;
Africa, 10.4 per cent . . . Only in Asia were the figures down
to less than 2 per cent! Yet here the vocations are increasing.
Maybe eventually the last shall be first! You can help by your
STRINGLESS GIFTS which allow us to send help where the
Holy Father feels it is most desirable.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
□ Build a school, chapel or convent for $2,000 to $6,000.
□ Support one of our $1 a month clubs to help Sisters, semina
rians, old folks, orphans, etc.
□ Educate a seminarian like AUGUSTINE KOTTACKAL or
JOHN KARUVELIL. Cost: $100 a year for six years.
□ Educate a Sister like SISTER MARY PAULSY or SISTER
MARY RICHARD. Cost: $150 a year for two years. You can
send the money in installments.
□ Place a MEMORIAL CHALICE or other item in a chapel,
the cost ranging from $50 down to $5 for CHAPEL BELLS
for the altar.
□ Send us MASS STIPENDS for the 15,000 priests in our care.
Often this is their only means of support.
□ Remember us in your will. Our legal title: THE CATHOLIC
NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION.
□ Help feed a poor Palestine REFUGEE FAMILY with a $10
FOOD PACKAGE.
□ Help with a BLANKET. Cost: $2.
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