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a J 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 (Continued From Page 4) 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. Speed-Up (Continued from Page 1) 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 for Jt banlu ids your oanmny neet SAVANNAH BANK & Trust Co. Savannah, Georgia Member F. D. I. C. Contact. Reeves Marble Company, Inc. 509 Peacbtree Street, N. E. Atlanta 8, Georgia Ask Rule Changes Anniversary (Continued from Page 1)