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PAGE 6—The Southern Cross, October 31, 1963
SISTER M. PATRICIA, R.S.M., principal of Pacelli High
School, Columbus and Father George C. James, School
Moderator, discuss school progress withfour students. They
are (1. to r.) Jim Wein, George Henderson, David Scherman
and Ronald Weisenfeld. — (LEDGER-ENQUIRER PHOTO)
News From
Pacelli High
By Peggy Harris CZ
Hrurlamaiimt
rmtii: In the future the cause for peace and brotherly
unity among nations will for the large part rest in the
hands of responsible, loyal youth, and
Knowledge of and dedication to Almighty
l» a desire for intelligent leadership, and a growing
sense of personal responsibility are vital to the continued
advancement of our Country toward world peace, and
liltmaa: the eight million young Americans who par
ticipate in National Catholic Youth Week realize their
obligation before G53and Country to strengthen them
selves Spiritually, Mentally and Physically to promote
the cause of peaceful unity, and
Mljmaa: Catholic Youth unite to attain these goals, and
this is clearly defined in the theme
The Young Catholic In The Lay Apostolate
Now, Therefore T MACCOM MAC LEAN
of the City of SAVANNAH j n t j le $ tate
of GEORGIA do hereby proclaim the week
of October 27-Novcmbcr 3
National (fatljnltr foutlj Mrrk
and do urge all to acknowledge the contribution made
bv the Catholic Youth of SAVANNAH
and to assist in every way possible the promotion of this
worthwhile endeavor.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and seal to be affixed this 25th Jay of OCTOBER
in the year of Our Lord----
One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-Three
MALCOM MAC LEAN '
MAYOR
Jottings
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COLUMBUS—Parents’ Night
was held at Pacelli High School,
Columbus, Georgia, on Thurs
day, October 17th. It was the
first of these monthly meetings
which gave the parents an op
portunity to meet the teachers
and one another. Father Igna
tius Behr, S.D.S., pastor of
Saint Benedict’s Church, gave
the invocation. Following him,
the Glee Club sang the Pacelli
High Alma Mater.
Pacelli’s moderator, Rever
end George C. James, welcom
ed the parents, introduced the
faculty, and class mothers; then
reviewed the policies of the
school. The class presidents,
senior James Wein, junior
George Henderson, sophomore
Ronald Weisenfeld and fresh
man David Schermann explain
ed the goals of their respective
classes for the coming year.
Sister Mary Patricia, R.S.M.,
Principal, informed the par
ents of the various tests given
VATICAN CITY (NC)--Sev-
ral movements are afoot at the
ecumenical council to change its
parliamentary procedure.
Giuseppe Cardinal Siri of Ge
noa, Italy, and Archbishop Mar
cel Lefebvre, C.S.Sp., superior
general of the Holy Ghost Fa
thers, favor giving council Fa
thers a wider choice of amend
ments to vote on.
Archbishop Lefebvre pointed
out to the N.C.W.C. News Ser
vice that council commissions
offer Fathers only a single am
endment on each point debated.
This represents only one point
of view out of many, Archbish
op Lefebvre said.
His suggestion is that the
commissions boil down sug
gested amendments on each
point to three, each represent
ing a distinct range in the spec
trum of opinion. The council
Fathers would then no longer
be faced with the simple alter-
nagive of taking the amend
ment proposed by a commis
sion or of leaving the article
as it is. Council regulations do
not allow qualified votes on n-
dividual mendments.
Another suggestion, favored
by several influential Latin Am
erican bishops, is aimed at fos
tering a real exchange of ideas
in the council hall. These bish
ops complain that under pres
to the students during the school
year. Among those administer
ed are: The National Educa
tional Development, National
Merit, and Preliminary Scho
lastic Aptitude.
Sister Mary Angeline,
R.S.M., gave an account of the
progress being made on the an
nual. Mr. Warren Swisshelm,
president of the Athletic Asso
ciation, explained the purpose
of the organization in reference
to financing the Pacelli High
School athletic program. Major
(Ret.) Woodrow Warner was the
final speaker on the agenda. He
announced the plans for Pacel
li’s Homecoming festivities on
the 26th of October. Father De-
Francesco, assistant pastor at
Holy Family Church, cocluded
the program with a prayer.
After the meeting Mrs. Mi
chael Bruni and Mrs. Thomas
Turner, Senior Class Mothers,
served refreshments.
Carol Zeranski
ent procedure each council Fa
ther tends to speak his own mind
about the subject under study
without coming to grips with
the opinions of others on that
subject. The result, these bi
shops say, is a series of mon
ologues rather than a discus
sion.
The remedy proposed by the
Latin American bishops is to
make the council’s revision
commissions genuinely repre
sentative of the currents of
thought in the council. Real dis
cussion could then be carried
on in the commission, they
maintain.
To make the commissions
more representative of the
council Fathers, the commis-
sins would have to be elected
afresh, these bishops believe.
They point out that, at the time
of the election of the commis
sions, few council Fathers knew
what viewpoint the men they
were voting for represented.
On Dean’s List
SAVANNAH — Miss Jeanette
Marie Jenkins, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John W. Jenkins, 2212
East Huntington St., Savannah,
has been named to the Dean’s
list at St. Mary’s College,
Notre Dame, Indiana.
The youth of the diocese saw
the death of a giant among pion
eers in youth work this week.
Monsignor Thomas Brennan
was indeed a wonderful worker
in the apostolate to young
people. Particularly in his early
days in Albany, he fostered
organizations for young people.
Next week, we will have a fuller
tribute to this noble and great
priest. Please pray for the hap
py repose of his soul.
* * *
This is not intended as just
another diatribe against the
over-emphasis of athletics.
There are feature articles
enough in magazines pointing
out the evils of this in our coun
try. But we do bewail the lack
of attention to academic excel
lence and scholarship and decry
the inverted values of sports
over culture. America is un
doubtedly sports crazy.
I confess to being a victim of
the times and products of this
millieu. On the rectory book
shelves I do display a plastic
doll in a Cincinnati Redleg uni
form, but no bust of Socrates
or Mozart. There are also, of
course, several madonnas in
prominent places. I hate to miss
a pro football game on Sunday
TV. I can recite the American
and National League pennant
winners since 1939, the first
year I followed those afore
mentioned Cincy Reds to a
championship. For most of my
adolescent years I devoured
each month copies of Baseball
Digest, Sporting News, Sport
Magazine. I will say all of us
thought it a helpful hobby, a
distraction to crowd away any
ta he had been studying. He
read some passages aloud.
‘'Then, suddenly, he stopped
and said: ‘O I know what my
personal part in the prepara
tion of the council will be,’
and after a pause he concluded:
‘It will be suffering.’ ”
Cardinal Suenens then turned
to a description of the persona
lity of Pope John, saying that
“his winning personality was
too rich to be reduced to a few
characteristics: all we can do is
to sketch some dominant traits
which brought him so close to
us and to the men of our time.
“If one had to express it all
in a word, it seems to me that
one could say that John XXIII
was a man astonishingly natural
and supernatural at the same
time. Nature and grace were
but one in a living unity full of
charm and of surprises.’’
The Cardinal noted that Pope
John “loved to share his pre
ferences with others’’ and had
the courage of his friendships.
“He surprised St. Joseph by
introducing him into the Canon
of the Mass, and some saints
from the region of Venice and
Lombardy by raising them to the
altars.’’
Of Pope John’s conficence in
the power of charity, Cardinal
Suenens observed “John XXIII
was not so naive as to believe
that goodness would solve all
problems, but he knew that it
would open hearts to dialogue,
to understanding, and to mutual
respect.”
There was no earthly vanity
in Pope John, Cardinal Suenens
said. “John XXIII leaves us the
memory of someone who in his
own eyes did not exist.”
At the outset of his eulogy,
Cardinal Suenens had cited a
Biblica 1 text often applied to
Pope John even in his lifetime:
“There was a man sent from
God, whose name was John.
He came to give testimony of the
Light, that all men might believe
through him.’’ Throughout his
eulogy, Cardinal Suenens went
back to this theme.
Returning to the words ‘ ‘he
came to give testmony of the
Light,’’ Cardinal Suenens said;
“If we shift our gaze from
the man to the work he accom
plished, his life appears as a
threefold grace: a grace for
the faithful of the Catholic
Church, a grace for all Chris
tians, a grace for all men of
good will.”
Pope John’s life was a grace
for Catholics, Cardinal Suenens
said, ‘‘above all, because of the
council he convoked. This was
the culmination of his pastor
al activity.”
In Pope John’s thinking,Car
dinal Suenens said, the council
was not first of all a meeting
of bishops with the pope. ‘‘It
was first of all a collective
gathering of the whole episco
pal college with the Holy Spir
it.”
There was a second round of
applause when Cardinal Suenens
said: “May John XXIII receive,
from the heights of Heaven, the
expression of the council Fa
thers’ deepest gratitude for the
singular grace of the council,
time for the pornography being
peddled. There is that much to
be said to the credit of the
sports craze.
But back to the original point,
each weekend chronicles the
glorious feats of a gridiron
high school hero. Everyone in
the city knows the star half
back, who capitalizes on his
God-given muscles, coordin
ation and skills. But who knows
or cares to know the boy or girl
who knocked down straight A’s
on the quarterly report? Who
knows the student who applies
his God-given intellctual capa
cities to a science project?
Who knows the star trumpet
player as well as the head ma
jorette or chief cheerleader?
The Four Horsemen of three
decades ago are still hailed
from coast to coast, immor
talized in poetry, known by name
to every avid schoolboy fan.
But who remembers the student
valedictorian of that graduating
class? For that matter, who
could name a single prominent
graduate of any year from some
of these college football fac
tories who excelled in any field
of science or culture.
Something really could be
done in the daily press to cor
rect the overemphasis on sports
to the detriment of culture.
for his confidence in the epis
copate, which is more than
ever unshakeably united to the
successor of Peter, to Peter
who yesterday was called John
and who today is named Paul,
and to whom we pledge the
same love and the same inde
fectible loyalty.”
On the second point—Pope
John’s life as a grace for all
Christians — Cardinal Suenens
said.
‘‘For to him we owe a new
atmosphere, a new climate,
which enables us together, as
brothers, to meet the obstacles
which remain to be overcome on
the path to a full and visible
unity. This climate we owe to
his charity and to his sincer
ity.”
Pope John’s charity ‘‘opened
the hearts of men to dialogue,”
Cardinal Suenens asserted.
Pope John’s “very evident”
sincerity was also responsible
for the improved climate of ra-
prochement since, Cardinal
Suenens said, “no one contem
plating his life could accuse
him of authoritarianism or am
bition.”
There was applause again
when Cardinal Suenens recalled
Pope John’s words to observ
ers at the council’s first ses
sion: “My heart burns with a
desire to work and to suffer
for the coming of that hour
when Jesus’ prayer at the Last
Supper will be realized for all
men.”
Speaking of Pope John’s life
as a grace for the world, Car
dinal Suenens called him “the
Pope of Dialogue.”
He said: “It is not easy to
make today’s world hear the
voice of the Church. It is drown
ed by too much noise . . .
“In spite of these obstacles,
John XXIII managed to make
himself heard. He broke through
the sound barrier.”
Cardinal Suenens, his deep
and melodious voice rising with
emotion, recalled how men wept
for Pope John “as children
for their father, pressing
around him to receive his bless
ing.” He went on:
“And the poor wept for him.
They knew he was one of them
and that he was dying poor like
them, thanking God for the pov
erty that for him had been such
a grace.
And the prisoners wept for
him; He had visited them and
encouraged them with his pres
ence.”
H e recalled how a convicted
murderer had approached Pope
John during his visit to Rome’s
jail. Could the Pope’s words of
hope apply to him also, such a
great sinner?
“The Pope’s only answer was
to open his arms and clasp him
to his heart. This prisoner is
surely a kind of symbol of the
whole of mankind, so close to the
heart of John XXIII.”
Cardinal Suenens also recall
ed Pope John’s love for the Irish
custom of putting a candle in
the window on Christmas Eve
to show Mary and Joseph there
was a welcome waiting for them.
Pope John will be for his
tory the Pope of Welcome and
of Hope, the Cardinal said. This
WV Charter
Bill Passed
By Senate
WASHINGTON (NC)--The
Senate has passed, 65 to 10,
resolutions to grant Federal
charters to the Catholic War
Veterans and the Jewish War
Veterans. The legislation goes
to the House.
The Senate rejected the argu
ment of Sen. Bourke Hicken-
looper of Iowa who said the
bills “create segregation based
upon religion.”
Hickenlooper waged a one-
man war against the legislation.
The two resolutions passed the
Senate Aug. 22 without debate,
but on Hickenlooper’s insis
tence the chamber agreed to
call them back from the House.
The Iowa lawmaker said he
opposed giving the recognition
of a Federal charter to any
specialized groups. Hicken
looper said that if the Masons,
to which he said he belongs,
proposed a special Masonic vet
erans group, he would oppose
them too.
The resolutions were defend
ed by two New York Senators,
Kenneth Keating and Jacob Ja-
vits. Keating cited precedent
and the two organizations’ serv
ice in his appeal for adoption
of the resolutions.
Javits said the two groups
do not propose religious segre
gation. “These organizations,”
he said, “are well-tested, re
spectable organizations and
render their full measure of
national service. This is not
segregation, because member
ship in such organizations is en
tirely a matter of voluntary
association.”
Augustan Named
Marist. College
Vice President
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.~
Brother Edward Lawrence
Cashin, a member of the His
tory Department faculty at Mar
ist college and a 1949 graduate
of the North Road institution,
has been appointed academic
vice president of Marist, Bro
ther Linus R. Foy, the presi
dent, made known recently.
The major responsibility of
Brother Edward in his new
position, Brother Linus said,
BROTHER EDWARD CASHIN
will be study and improvement
of the curriculum in the ex
panding liberal arts college.
The addition of more courses
is being considered as the col
lege continues its rapid expan
sion of enrollment, which now
has reached about 1,500, a col
lege aide said.
Brother Edward will continue
as a member of the History
Department in addition to
carrying out duties of the vice
presidency. The son of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward J. Cashin of
Augusta, Ga., he was born July
22, 1927, and was graduated
from Boy’s Catholic High
School there in 1945.
He received master’s and
doctor’s degrees from Ford-
ham University, New York City,
where he majored in American
History.
From 1949 to 1959, Brother
Edward taught at Mount St.
Michael High School in the
Bronx, and from 1959 to 1962
at Christopher Columbus High
School in Miami, Fla. He
assumed his Marist College
teaching position last Septem
ber.
is the reason his gently and
holy memory will remain a ben
ediction in the centuries to
come.
At his departure, “he left
men closer to God, and the
world a better place for men
to live,” Cardinal Suenens con
cluded.
Frances Cardinal Spellman of
New York, who entered the
basilica just as Cardinal Suen
ens was beginning to speak, was
not taken to his seat among
the cardinals, presumably lest
he disturb the speaker, He sat
on one of the dozens of benches
where those without tickets to
the tribunes sit. He removed his
red skullcap and sat attentively
among the laypeople throughout
the eulogy.
the illness and care of aged
parents, death of loved ones,
business failures, etc. But this
time, I’ll forget the pride of
mistaken selflessness and pray
also for myself and the disease
that has slowed me down con
siderably since last I knelt at
Lourdes. Whatever happens
here is all right with me for
it obviously is what Our Lord
and His Mother want, too. Most
of my time will be spent at
Saint James
Home & School
Association
At the October meeting of
Saint James Home and School
Association an informative talk
on Poisons in the Home was
given by Mrs. A. H. Clark, a
member of the Savannah Phar
maceutical Association.
Mrs. Clark spoke of the im
portance of recognizing the
things that are poisonous, and
of the precautions to be taken
in preventing accidental poi
sonings.
She brought to the attention
of the members, the Poison
Control Center, located in the
Memorial Hospital, which has
access to the latest informa
tion necessary in treating poi
soning victims.
Mrs. Chandler, Chairman of
the Library Committee, an
nounced that the school library
is now open to the students, and
thanked her committee for their
assistance in its organization.
It was also announced that the
Annual Book Fair will be held
on November 17, at which time,
the teachers will have open
house, and all parents are in
vited to visit the classrooms
of their children.
Monsignor John D. Toomey
extended an invitation to all
members to the Parish dance on
Saturday, November 2 at the
Knights of Columbus Hall.
No North
Vietnam Bishops
At Council
SAIGON (NC)—The commun
ist government in North
Vietnam has not allowed any
bishops to attend either the
first or the current session
of the Second Vatican Council.
In this the North Vietnam com
munists are following the line
of the Chinese communist re
gime.
The Catholic hierarchy in
North Vietnam comprises
Archbishop Joseph Trin-nhu-
Khue of Hanoi and nine bish
ops. In addition there are two
bishops-elect, one appointed for
Thanh-Hoa in May, 1959, and
one for Langson, officially nam
ed in March, 1960, whom the
communist authorities have not
allowed to receive episcopal
consecration.
Priests in North Vietnam are
believed to number something
more than 300. They are
constantly hampered in their
work and movements.
PATRONIZE OUR
ADVERTISERS
the Grotto, I have little in
terest in the sightseeing tours
to the homes of Bernadette,
etc. All the important events of
Lourdes happened here at the
grotto. Yet, it will be the*
words spoken to little Ber
nadette which I will remember
again when I leave and the
whispered petitions for myself
and others remain—“I do not
promise to make you happy in
this world but in the next.
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the agenda at this rate it will
be 1980 when those of us
then still alive can go home.”
Pope Paul VI is understood
to be anxious to put the litur
gy schema into force on the
first Sunday of Advant (Dec. 1),
just before the Dec. 4 end of
the council’s second session.
But various amendments still
remain to be voted on.
Whether discussion on the
second schema—“On the Na
ture of the Church’ ’ will be com
pleted during the second session
is still uncertain. If the council
should decide to streamline the
schemata, as has been suggest
ed, by including both the Mario-
logical and ecumenism schem
ata in the one on the Church,
debate on the latter could not
possibly be finished by Dec. 4.
At a press conference
reviewing council progress, Bi
shop Helmut Wittier of Osna-
brueck, Germany, said that
many bishops are displeased at
the council’s slow progress.
But, he added, it is difficult to
reach a compromise between
the need to avoid interminable
debates and the desire not to
interfere with freedom of
speech.
Warns Cancer
Possibility
In “Pill”
NEW YORK (NC)—A leading
cancer specialist cautioned
here against long term use of
hormone drugs in anti-ovula
tion pills as a possible cancer
stimulant in humans.
Dr. Roy Hertz, chief of the
endocrinology branch of the Na
tional Cancer Institute at Be-
thesda, Md., said (Oct. 22) that
he believed any unnecessary
treatment: with hormones was
uncalled for because of their
possible relationship to the can
cer process.
He specifically mentioned
estrogen, a female hormone
used in treating several kinds
of disorders, including serious
post-menopause disturbances
in women. Estrogen is also an
ingredient in the anti-ovulation
or so-called “birth control”
pills.
Under experimental condi
tions, female hormones have
been implicated in the produc
tion of breast cancer in ani
mals. However, treatment with
such hormones has never been
implicated as a cause of breast
cancer in humans.
Dr. Hertz said not enough
time had elapsed to rule out the
possibility that female hor
mones contribute to the
development of cancers after
prolonged periods. Clinical
testing of the first of the oral
anti-ovulation drugs began in
1954, but extensive use of such
agents has come only during the
last few years.
A more positive view of the
role of female hormones was
expressed by Dr. George Rose-4
mond, professor of surgery atj
Temple University Hospital and^
Medical School, Philadelphia.
He said in his experience
even a previous operation for
breast cancer was no necessary
bar to use of hormones there
after in treating conditions that
merited use of such drugs.
However, Dr. Rosemond ad
mitted that obstetricians and
gynecologists were often reluc
tant to use hormone drugs on
women who had a history of
breast cancer.
Dr. Rosemond took no posi
tion on the use of the anti
ovulation pills.
Both men spoke at a sympo
sium on unusual forms and
aspects of cancer in man spon
sored by the New York Academy
of Sciences, the American Can
cer Society and the National
Cancer Institute.
Shoes For Peru
NEW YORK (NC)—Students
at St. Francis College in Brook
lyn are collecting 250 pairs of
shoes for a home for boys on
the outskirts of Lima, Peru.
The program is the first
phase in a campaign the stu
dents hope will bring in enough
funds and materials to enable t
a group of them to return to
work next summer at the or
phanage.
Everything for the
Sick Room
Hospital Beds-Wheel Chairs
-Invalid Walkers-Patient
Lifters. Many other Sick
room needs.
Prescriptions Called For
& and Delivered
Wachtel’s
PHYSICIAN SUPPLY CO.
Paul H. Ewaldsen
408 Bull St. - AD 6-4271
SHOWN ABOVE are the newly elected officers of the
Catholic Youth Organization of St. Benedict’s Parish, Savan
nah. They are (back row 1. to r.) George Singleton, St. Pius
X High School; Julia Heyward, Sol. C. Johnson High School;
Florence Russell, Savannah High School; and Stanton Hines,
St. Pius X. (Front row 1. to r.) Frances Bazemore, Sol C.
Johnson H. S.; Joyce Jones, Sol C. Johnson (President);
Amanda Moore and Odessa Williams, both of St. Pius X.
person - to - person Service
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SAVANNAH BANK & Trust Co.
Savannah, Georgia Member F. D. I. C.
Contact.
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509 Peacbtree Street, N. E.
Atlanta 8, Georgia
Ask Rule Changes
Anniversary
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