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Where Your CRS
Contribution Goes
NEW YORK—Did you ever
wonder where your contribution
goes after you put it into last
Sunday’s collection basket for
Catholic Relief Services? It
goes to your pastor, as you
know; and then to the chancery
office, and finally to the CRS
bank account. But what happens
then?
One point to stress is that you
give much more than you even
remotely realize. Your $5 bill
or check in the basket last Sun
day is multiplied more than 30
times under the expert, careful
handling of CRS officials, with
very important help from the
United States Government. How
does this happen?
Catholic Relief Services-Na-
tional Welfare Conference has
authorization, and in fact is in
vited by the U.S. government, to
distribute U.S. surplus food and
other products in the name of
the American people. The food
is given to the needy people; the
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U.S. government pays ocean
freight to a port in the designa
ted country. Then it is up to
CRS-NCWC to get the food to
the areas where it is needed
most.
CRS tries to get the recipi
ent government to pay the in
land freight costs—but it has
paid these itself, wfren the gov
ernment was unable to do so.
At the area where the food is
needed, CRS arranges for its
distribution through local char
itable organizations—and, it is
emphasized, without regard to
race, creed or color. CRS of
ficials point out that one of their
largest relief programs is in
Morocco. Morocco is probably
3% Christian—and a lesser per
centage Catholic.
In this connection CRS works
with other agencies and helps
many kinds of non-Catholic in
stitutions. In many countries
CRS is the only agency distrib
uting U.S. surplus food.
There are 130 Americans on
the CRS staff overseas. They
work with social workers and
Catholic charitable organiza
tions in the various countries so
that CRS administrative expen
ses are only 2% which they con
sider "almost fantastic.*’ They
attain this very low percentage
by working through local organ
izations wherever possible—
and where there are none, such
as in underdeveloped areas, en
couraging their formation.
Thus the American CRS staff
members supervise much of the
work, and insure proper distri
bution of goods. One of their
responsibilities is to see that
surplus food is not sold and does
not get onto the black market.
Father Fabian Flynn, C.P., of
the New York CRS office, says,
"We do not run a dole system.
We do not give handouts; we de
plore that expression.
"We are trying to help peo
ple, to bring them back to health
so they can go to school and
study, or work every day.”
As an example he cited the le
prosy program in Senegal.
There are some 48,000 unregis
tered lepers there. CRS-NCWC
has a program of food and med
icine for the lepers, believing
there is no point in giving med
icine to a leper if he does not
have food to sustain him. And
leprosy can be arrested or cur
ed these days.
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RECEIVE "MARCHING ORDERS” -Tom Beytagh, Jr., and Jack McAleer, Jr., members
of St. James Drum and Bugle Corps receive their ‘‘marching orders” from Msgr. John
D. Toomey, pastor of St. James. The corps will march in Savannah’s St. Patrick’s Day
parade next Tuesday. Others in photo are Harry Deal (1.) director, and Father John
Buckley, an assistant at St. James.
Veteran Priest Marcher
To Lead New York Parade
NEW YORK—When this city’s
Irish marchers — authentic
Celts and one-day converts—
step out on St. Patrick’s Day be
hind stirring pipes and thunder
ing drums, at their head will be
a silver-tongued priest from
Kiltrocan, Ballyhale, in County
Kilkenny.
He is Father Sean S. Reid,
O. Carm, who, as Grand Mar
shal of New York’s biggest par
ade will lead an estimated 12,-
000 green-wearing sons and
daughters of Erin up Fifth Ave
nue in their annual tribute to
Ireland’s patron saint.
Father Reid, a member andj-
chaplain of the New York Coun
ty chapter of the Ancient Order
of Hibernians, the nation’s old
est, will be marching in his
20th St. Patrick’s Day parade.
‘ ‘It will be a little harder
traveling the distance this year
than it was 20 years ago,” said
the Carmelite pastor of Our
Lady of the Scapular church who
came here in 1933.
Despite his doubts, Father
Reid should have no trouble
along the route. At 53, he is
trim and energetic. And, he
proudly related in an interview,
‘‘I’ll be marching right behind
the band of the Fighting 69th
Regiment,” which is known af
fectionately to Irishmen as
“New York’s own.”
Father Reid ascribes his se
lection as Grand Marshal to the
indubitable fact that “someone
wants to win a bet.”
He explained that he has
marched in 20 St. Patrick’s
Day parades without once being
persuaded, finagled, or coerced
into wearing a silk top hat for
the occasion.
A few years ago, he recalled,
one determined Irish lady even
rented a hat for him without
prior consultation, but on her
way to the parade she inad
vertently left the topper on the
subway.
The priest indicated that the
hand of Providence was some
where at work.
“But now,” he related, ’’they
have arranged it so I cannot re
fuse to wear a topper. It must
have been a bet.”
Asked if he would complete
the picture of the well-dressed
Grand Marshal by wearing cut-
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away coat and striped trousers,
the priest quickly interjected,
* ‘Not on your life.”
Father Reid will not have the
traditional green line pointing
the way up Fifth Avenue this
year.
A few months back, New
York’s Italians wanted to know
why they couldn’t have a purple
line for their Columbus Day
parade. Then the German com
munity asked why they couldn’t
have a blue line. Finally, a
spokesman for the Spanish com
munity noted that Columbus dis
covered America for Spain and
they had as much right to a line
as anyone.
The upshot has been that all
national lines have been discon
tinued, causing one proud Irish
man to remark, “We Irish don’t
walk on the green anyway, we
wear it.”
To which Father Reid res
ponds, “I’m much more con
cerned that the sky be blue
than the line be green.”
The priest was nominated as
Grand Marshal by Judge James
J. Comerford and unanimously
elected at a meeting of del
egates representing more than
200 organizations from the New
York metropolitan area.
Nuns Wounded,
Mission Sacked
In Red Terror
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo
(NC)—Two nuns were wounded,
their mission sacked and their
school's pupils abused in new
terror by communists in Kwilu
Province.
Christian missioners in the
province, one of the most dense
ly populated areas of the Congo,
have for weeks been the target
of brutal attacks by fanatic war
riors led by Peking-trained
Pierre Mulele, former Congo
lese Education Minister.
Fragmentary radio reports
reaching Leopoldville from
Kikwit, capital of Kwilu Pro
vince, said (March 7) Congo
lese soldiers beat off the new
attack by the terrorists at the
St. Andre Mission on the out
skirts of Kikwik.
The two nuns reportedly were
not seriously injured.
The terrorists were said to
have used some of the mission’s
1,000 school children as human
shields against Congolese sol
diers who rushed to the mis
sion's defense. The marauders
finally were beaten off with bay
onets. Four of them reportedly
were killed.
Third Order—
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St. Joseph Church, Waycross,
gave the spiritual talk saying
that since the inception of the
THIRD ORDER OF MARY in
Waycross, there had been a
change in the religious spirit of
the parish. He further observed
that when you seek the source
that generates this fervor, the
only thing new is the THIRD
ORDER. The Increased Holy
Communions at Sunday Mass is
significant. All tertiaries from
Waycross are converts and
these together with all mem
bers of the Brunswick Fra
ternity were encouraged by Fa
ther Kelly to become more and
more attached to the Blessed
Mother.
The business meeting contin
ued in Xavier Hall conducted by
the Rector. Plans to attend the
Day of Recollection on March
15 with members of the Sacred
Heart Fraternity, Atlanta, were
made. The next regular monthly
meeting will be held Thursday
evening, March 19, Feast of
St. Joseph, and all tertiaries of
St. Francis Xavier Fraternity
are urged to receive Holy Com
munion on that day on which a
plenary indulgence may be ob
tained. At this regular meeting,
held one week early, tertiaries
will be advised of the special
devotions to be exercised during
Holy Week.
About 60 half-naked rebels
attacked the mission which lies
on the west bank of the Kwilu
river, less than a mile from
the center of Kikwit.
No details were immediately
available on how the nuns were
wounded or how extensively the
mission was sacked.
The rebels have vowed to rid
the province of all white resi
dents. Their attacks already
have taken the lives of two Bel
gian lay Catholic teachers and
wounded at least five other
missioners.
Instances of terror are wide
spread. Fifteen Trappist monks
recently were isolated for about
three weeks by the rebels who
surrounded their abbey at Kas-
anza.
The Southern Cross, March 12, 1964—PAGE 3
Savannah’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Grand Marshal’s Reception,
Sunday, At Hotel DeSoto
SAVANNAH—A reception for
L. Gordon Whelan, grand mar
shal for the Saint Patrick’s
Day parade, will be held in the
grand ballroom of the Hotel De
Soto on Sunday, March 15th,
at 3 p.m.
Highlight of the festivities-
will be the investing of the grand
marshal with the ornate sash of
office by Joseph McDonough,
1963 marshal. Whelan will then
invest his aides, J. Arthur
Kearney and A. J. (Dutch) Hal-
ligan with their sashes of office.’
Participating in the program
will be the Most Reverend Tho
mas J. McDonough, Bishop of
Savannah. Bishop McDonough
will speak at the function and
will be in the reception line to
help receive the guests.
Members of the receiving
line will be grand marshal
Whelan and his wife; his two
aides and their wives; Bishop
McDonough and Daniel J. Keane,
parade chairman.
Iowa
State Law Urged
For Bus Rides
For Private Pupils
(By Paul F. Kamler)
DES MOINES, Iowa (NC)—A
concerted appeal for endorse
ment of legislation which would
permit parochial and other pri
vate school pupils to ride pub
lic school buses arose at a po
litical meeting here.
The issue turned a Polk Coun
ty Republican leaders meeting
into a ‘‘politics makes strange
bedfellows” scene since it has
been Republican opposition
since 1945 which has kept
the nonpublic school students off
the buses.
Now there is speculation that
Republicans on a statewide bas
is may consider a school bus
plant in the party platform for
the November elections.
The two chief speakers on the
issue at the (Feb. 28) meeting,
Nick Van Til, professor at Dordt
College, Sioux Center, and
George Wright, Eagle Grove at
torney, contended the present
situation is unfair to both non
public school students and their
parents.
Gov. Harold Hughes, a Demo
crat and a Methodist, in his
inaugural address last year,
advocated transportation in
public school buses for students
of nonpublic schools.
“I don’t think for a minute
that Gov. Hughes recommended
it (a school bus bill) as a politi
cal gimmick. He was sincere,”
Wright told the political lead
ers.
The attorney, who is a Cath
olic, added that a bill which
would have provided public
school bus rides for nonpublic
pupils was * ‘quickly swept un
der the rug” by Republican op
position in the Iowa House last
year when the measure was de
feated 77 to 31.
Van Til, a Christian Reform
Church member, who with
Wright was invited to speak at
the meeting, declared: “Equal
school bus transportation is a
civil right to which parents and
children are entitled. We be
lieve that fear of the state’s as
sociation with any kind of re
ligious or sectarian group does
not justify withholding from any
citizens or group monies they
paid for education, welfare and
safety of their children.
The professor said it was the
obligation of parents to trans
mit a religious commitment to
their children and that parents
also have the right “freely to
enroll their children in indepen
dent schools.” He added that for
the state to deny the safety pre
caution of rides on public school
buses to nonpublic school pupils
is an “unjust prohibition.”
Wright said until 1945
students attending Catholic, Lu
theran, Christian Reform and
other Church related schools
were permitted to ride public
school buses. Then, he said, a
ruling by the Attorney General
held such transportation was
illegal. Nonpublic school pupils
since have been denied public
school bus transportation, he
added.
Wright emphasized that agi
tation for a school bus bill is
not “a Democratic thing”
merely because the Governor
has advocated it. He was a
leader in the attempt last year
to get such legislation through
the Legislature. He said the
proposal is backed by the Iowa
Committee for Equal School
Bus Transportation and by a
number of other non-poUtical
groups.
“We have 100,000 pupils at
tending private schools in Iowa,
one of every seven students in
the state,” Wright said. “In
terms of voter appeal, the par
ents of these children are in
terested in this question.
"It is just as much an issue
as the Negro issue,” he stress
ed. "The Republican leader
ship, it seems to me, especial
ly is reluctant to open its eyes.”
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Appearing on the program
will be Miss Betty O’Kelly,
originally from Limerick City,
Ireland, now of Chicago. Miss
O’Kelly is often referred to as
"The Voice of Ireland.” She
will be accompanied by Larry
Shields at the piano.
The Galax High School Band,
of Galax, Virginia, will enter
tain with a concert beginning
at 2:15 p.m.
Also taking part in the enter
tainment phase of the program
will be the "Freelanders”, lo
cal Savannah group, who will
give an "Irish version of Hoote-
nany.”
“Irish Welcome”
CHUNCHON, Korea (NC)— It
happened on a sick call with Fa
ther Arthur McMahon, S.S.C.,
a native of County Fermanagh,
Ireland, who is pastor of Sa
cred Heart Church here.
As Father McMahon was
about to take off his shoes
before entering the house, he
heard a voice boom out, “If
You’re Irish, Come Into the
Parlor?” A bit stunned, he re
alized that it was a song from
the record shop on the corner,
warming up for St. Patrick’s
Day.
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