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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1965 e ' $5 Per Year
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33rd CONVENTION
Savannah Hosts
Newman Clubs
Of Four States
More than 200 students from
colleges in Georgia, North and
South Carolina and Florida are
expected to attend the 33rd an
nual Southeastern Province New
man Club Convention, to be held
this weekend in Savannah.
The students, all members of
the Newman Centers or Clubs
of their respective schools will
begin registering for the two-
day meet at Savannah’s De-
Hotel Friday afternoon at
P.M.
They will be officially welcom
ed by the Rev. Lawrence Luc-
ree, chaplain of the Newman
Club of Armstrong College, Sa
vannah, host group, and the
Armstrong Club officers at 8:00
P.M.
Theme of the convention is
“Laymen Everywhere ....
Workers Where?" Leading off
to answer the question will be
Joe Petty, news analyst of Sa
vannah’s WSAV radio and tele
vision stations, formerly a
sportscaster whose voice was
familiar to thousands of Holy
Cross Alumni as he broadcast
the football games of the fam
ous Jesuit school in Massachu
setts.
Mr. Petty will deliver the
opening address at 9:00 P.M.
Friday evening — “Laymen in
the Twentieth Century”.
After an hour of leadership
workshops for Newman Club
officers beginning at 10:00 P.M.
delegates will attend an infor
mal dance and hootenanny.
On Saturday morning, Mayor
Malcolm Maclean will extend
the welcome of the City of Sa
vannah to the Newmanites. At
9:15 the keynote address will
be delivered by Martin Work,
Executive Director of the Na
tional Council of Catholic men,
with headquarters in Washing
ton, D.C. He will speak on “The
Ecumenical Council and the
Layman”.
Other Saturday highlights will
be a special Mass at the Cathe
dral of St. John the Baptist; a
talk on “Emerging Laymen as
Workers” by Ed Kirchner, Per
manent representative of Pax
Romano to UNESCO and Direc
tor of International Affairs for
the Catholic Association for In
ternational Development; anoth
er address by Martin Work;
leadership workshops; regional
caucuses and elections of Pro
vincial officers.
The convention banquet will
be held in the main ballroom
of the Hotel at 7:30 P.M. Sat
urday, with Dr. James Gilbert,
prominent Catholic psychiatrist
of Columbia, S.C., speaking on
“Psychiatry in Religion”.
A semi-formal dance will be
held at 9:00 P.M. at the Knights
of Columbus Council 631 hall.
The convention will come to
an end at a Communion Break
fast following a Pontificial Mass
at the Cathedral at 10:00 A.M.
Sunday. Father Christian Ma
lone, O.F.M., chaplain of the
Newman Center of the Universi
ty of Georgia at Athens will
deliver the sermon at the Mass
and Bishop Thomas J. McDon
ough will be the featured speak
er at the Communion breakfast.
His topic will be “Workers for
Christ’’.
PRELATE SAYS
Emerging Bishop
Making His Bow
USTON, Tex. (NC)-Lay
men aren’t the only ones who
are “emerging” today in the
Church, a bishop said here.
“It is proper to call our day
the day of the “emerging bish
op’,” declared Bishop Charles
A. Buswell of Pueblo, Colo.
Bishop Buswell said the Vati
can Council’s constitutions on
the liturgy and the Church have
helped bring out the true role
of bishops by underlining their
place as pastors and as cele-
;• brants of the Eucharist.
The bishop spoke at the third
annual workshop and study week
of the Southwest Liturgical Con-
' ference (Jan. 25-28). Some 300
persons attended sessions on the
\ theme “God’s People at Wor
ship”.
Highlights .of the meeting were
three Masses offered on succes
sive days embodying the chan
ges in the liturgy of the Mass
that will go into effect through
out the country March 7. These
include dropping Psalm 42, at
the start of Mass, and the Last
Gospel.
Bishop Buswell told the meet-
ingjhat up to now bishops have
been rather remote fig-
to many Catholics, al
though neither bishops nor peo
ple wanted it that way.
“No bishop whom I know de
sires a bond with his people
which is merely institutional
and impersonal,” he said. “He
desires truly to be the father
of his people. He would take no
pride in being simply the chief
administrator of the organiza
tion to which he and his people
belong.’’
He said the declarations of
the ecumenical council make it
clear that a bishop’s “chief re
sponsibility is to preside over
the Eucharist in the community
of believers.”
“It is ideal, therefore,” he
stated, “that the bishop cele
brate holy Mass frequently a-
mong his people.”
“In the cathedral, to be sure,”
he added, “but in these days
when most of the people of a
diocese cannot come to the
cathedral for the celebration of
the Eucharist, the bishop may
well visit parishes throughout
his diocese for the celebration
of the Eucharist.”
CATHOLIC PRESS MONTH is
being observed during February
throughout the nation. Pictured
above is Msgr. Robert G. Pe
ters, editor of the Peoria Regis
ter and president of the Catholic
Press Association of the United
States.
IIS
SAVANNAH’S MAYOR MALCOLM MACLEAN (1)
presents key to city to Rev. Lawrence Lucree, chap
lain of Armstrong College Newman Club and club
officers, (1 to r), Richard Shoemaker, Vice Pres.;
Pat Roney, Sec.-Treas.; and Chuck Powell, Presi
dent. Armstrong’s club is host to Southeast Newman
Club meet Feb. 5-7.
(Ward Studio Photo)
IN AUGUSTA AND SAVANNAH
Movie And Book Twin Victims
Of One - Two Punch In Georgia
A one-two punch by Georgia
citizens in Augusta and Savan
nah has resulted in setbacks for
the controversial film “Kiss Me,
Stupid”, given a “C” or “Con
demned” rating by the National
Office of the Legion of Decency,
and the publishers, distributors
and retailers of a book judged
“Obscene” by the Georgia State
Literature Commission.
Action by students at Augus
ta’s Aquinas High School re
sulted in the cancellation of
“Stupid” which had been sched
uled for a showing at the city’s
Miller Theatre.
Aquinas’ YCS (Young Chris
tian Students) group decided to
adopt, as a club project, a plan
to demonstrate public disap
proval of the movie.
Club officers enlisted the help
of the entire student body in
preparing and circulating a pe
tition through the school and in
the students’ own neighborhoods.
After garnering more than 1,500
names they presented the peti
tion to James C. Cartledge,
theatre manager on Wednesday
(Jan. 26).
Cartledge agreed to hold over
his present feature, “Father
Goose” and cancel the showing
of “Stupid” even though he had
already ordered the film and
would have to take a financial
loss.
Cartledge asked the Rev.
Ralph E. Seikel, moderator of
Aquinas, if students would sup
port his held-over picture. Fa
ther Seikel, in an unprecedent
ed move, asked teachers to help
students show their appreciation
for the theatre manager’s coop
eration. Teachers agreed not to
a s s i gn homework Wednesday
night, and at the request of the
priest, most of the student body
went to the movies, instead of
to their books. Some 200 of the
311 youths showed up, accord
ing to Father Seikel.
Not only were there no hard
feelings betwen theatre manag
er and students, but on Thurs
day morning, Cartledge told the
school’s Moderator that he was
so impressed with the behavior
of the students, he would like
them to be his guests at a spe
cial showing on Saturday of a
teenage movie, “Tammy”.
The Savannah action against
a paperback book, “Strip Ar
tist”, came after the book, a-
long with ten others, had been
cited before the State’s Litera
ture Commission by an unoffi
cial organization of citizens, led
by Anthony K. Gannam, Savan
nah Catholic businessman long
active in efforts to remove ob
scene and pornographic books
and magazines from the city’s
news stands.
The Literature Commission,
acting for the first time under
Georgia’s new anti-obscenity law,
filed an action against the book
before Savannah’s Superior
Court Judge Dunbar Harrison
earlier this month, and the case
was tried last week (Jan. 28).
Gannam, appearing as t h e
State’s witness declared the
book “is obscene and has pas
sages four or five pages long,
dealing with sexual acts.”
He said that members of his
committee had purchased a co
py of “Strip Artist” from a
news stand operated by one of
the respondents in the suit, and
after reviewing it decided it
was in violation of the state
law. It was then passed on to
the State Literature Commission
with a complaint.
Evidence presented by the
state was uncontested by the
respondents, who were named
as the book’s author, publish-
not be contrary to canon law.
VATICAN
er, an Atlanta distributing firm
aid the news stand operator.
Only the news stand operator
appeared in court and his attor
ney stated, “We are most hap
py to enter no contest because
it (the book in question) is ob
scene.”
Judge Harrison then issued a
court order banning the book
throughout the State. The order
said the book is “composed al
most entirely of obscene and
repugnant passages devoted to
lengthy and vivid accounts of
sexual promiscuity and misbe
havior between its main char
acters . . .”
The order also declared that
“when the entire book is taken
or considered as a whole, it has
as its predominant appeal, pru
rient interest, going substantial
ly beyond the customary limits
of candor in the description or
representation of su c h mat
ters . .
He declared such an action would
Mental Retardation
The wording of the order re
flected the wording of the U-
nited States Supreme Court in
its definition of obscenity.
Judge Harrison’s action makes
it illegal for the book to be sold
anywhere in Georgia and, ac
cording to Solicitor General An
drew J. Ryan, who presented
the Literature Commission’s
case, the court’s ruling means
that “anyone in the state who
offers the book for sale can now
be prosecuted under a criminal
action.” Action under the anti
obscenity law is a civil case,
but violated of court orders is
sued under the obscenity statute
could be prosecuted under con
tempt of court proceedings.
Judge Harrison declared that
he had no choice but to issue
the banning order, since no one
appeared to dispute the State’s
charges of obscenity.
When the action was filed
early this month, it was char
acterized by Literature Commis
sion James P. Wesberry as a
court “test” of the State’s new
law.
But lack of any opposition
prompted Judge Harrison to ob
serve, “All we’ve done is re
move one book. I don’t know
what this means.”
However, Wesberry expressed
“delight” at winning the Com
mission’s first case under the
new law and Solicitor Ryan de
clared, “It (the court’s action)
will make the publishers a lit
tle more careful.”
Wesberry also praised Gan-
nam’s group, saying it is “the
best local setup we have seen.
I believe we’ve had the longest
continued interest m Savannah
that we’ve had anywhere.”
Said Gannam about the book’s
banning, “Of course, it’s too
early to be able to assess the
extent to which it will affect
the problem of obscene litera
ture in this community and
throughout the State.
“But, even if this turns out
to be only a small victory, at
least it is a victory and it shows
that if citizens, are really inter
ested and willing to work at it,
they can do something to pre
vent debilitating, demoralizing
and soul - corroding literature
from destroying the moral sense
of* a community’s people, and
particularly its children.”
Both the Aquinas students’ ac
tion and the Savannah court
case were the subject of an edi
torial in the Augusta Chronicle
last Tuesday. The petition
against “Stupid” was attacked
by the paper as a form of “cen
sorship” and an insult to the
intelligence of adult movie-go
ers. The Students were accused
of using “pressure” tactics.
VATICAN CITY—-Pope Paul VI, addressing specialists in prob
lems of mentally retarded children, declared that charity plays a
key role in their work. “It is this supernatural love that inculcates
in us a profound respect for life, for the sacred character of the
person and of the absolute and mysterious value of his dignity,
even among those poorly favored from a human point of view,” he
said.
NATION
Bishop Transferred
WASHINGTON (NC)—The Most Rev. George J. Biskup has
been named Bishop of Des Moines, succeeding Bishop Edward C.
Daly who was killed in an airplane crash at the Rome, Italy airport,
just after the close of the third session of the Ecumenical Council.
Prior to his appointment to Des Moines, Bishop Biskup was Auxiliary
to Archbishop Byrne of Dubuque.
EUROPE
Congo Murder
ROME — Father Francis Spoto, superior general of the
Missionary Servants of the Poor, was killed by Congolese rebels at
Biringi mission in the northern Congo, according to Fides, the
mission news service. Father Spoto, 35, had left for the Congo last
Aug. 4 from the order’s motherhouse in Palermo, Italy, where the
young priest had just been elected superior general. He died two
days after Christmas as the result of torture.
Lay Cardinals?
BONN—Auxiliary Bishop Walther Kampe of Limburg, Ger
many, has applauded the appointment of 27 new cardinals and
raised the possibility of a layman being elevated to the College of
Cardinals. In an article for the German Catholic News Agency, hd
asked “Will it someday occur that an outstanding layman will also
receive the honor of the purple?”
DISAGREEMENTS MINOR
Church Groups
Approve LBJ’s
Education Plan
WASHINGTON (NC)- Catholic
and Protestant spokesmen ap
plauded President Johnson’s
school aid proposal in a placid
House hearing where the Tinly
disagreement came over minor
technical questions.
The release from the charged
atmosphere of such hearings in
the past was noted all around.
A Catholic spokesman smiling
ly commented that it was a re
lief not to fear getting out of
the hearing room alive. The
major Protestant spokesmen
spoke of the bill as an “instru
ment of reconciliation.” Con
gressmen praised the comprom
ises they saw being made by
all sides, church groups and
educators.
The President has proposed a
$1.2 billion program of aid to
improve the elementary and
secondary schooling of children
from poverty-stricken families.
A total of $1 billion would go
to public school districts in low-
income areas. The law would
require that these districts ex
tend to needy parochial and oth
er private school pupils assis
tance in the form of dual en
rollment or shared services pro
grams.
Additionally, the proposal
would spend $100 million for
textbooks for all school chil
dren and school libraries and
another $100 million to create
a system of public-private com
munity educational centers to
offer cultural enrichment and
special courses to all school
children.
In the day-long hearing (Jan.
28) before a subcommittee
headed by Rep. Carl D. Perkins
of Kentucky, Msgr. Federick G.
Hochwalt reiterated the general
endorsement of the Department
of Education of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference. He
heads the department.
The monsignor proposed that
to carry out the intent of the
legislation for public - parochial
school cooperation, some form
of consultation should be requir
ed between authorities of the
public and private systems on
the types of programs to be of
fered and the books to be pro
vided.
“The door has been opened,”
he said, “for full-dress discus
sion of good school programs,
aid to low-income areas, needs
of libraries and textbook re
quirements . . .
“Here is the opportunity tor
educators generally in the Unit
ed States to tell the Congre-s
and the people what they want
and what they need. New evi
dence of these -needs can be
placed before Congress qnd pri
vate, nonprofit schools are giv
en an opportunity to show that
they are educating large num
bers of disadvantaged children.
They have a good case for be-,
ing helped. We are pleased to
do what we can to present this
case to this committee, to the
Congress and to the country,”
he said.
Msgr. Hochwalt was joined in
his support by Msgr. William E.
McManus, superintendent of
Chicago archdiocesan schools;
Msgr. John B. McDowell, super
intendent of Pittsburgh dioce
san schools; and Edward Mc-
Ardle, a Silver Spring, Md., fa
ther of seven children..
The major Protestant spokes
man was Arthur S. Flemming,
first vice president of the Na
tional Council of the Churches
of Christ, the national federa
tion of Protestant and Eastern
Orthodox churches.
Flemming, who was Secretary
of the U. S. Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
under former President Eisen
hower, said the Johnson propos
al would accelerate the “desir
able development” of dual en
rollment programs.
The NCC, he said, drew a
line between aid to a pupil and
aid to a private school. “A pro
gram for making Federal funds
available to the private schools
.would be opposed vigorously by
many of the member commun
ions of the National Council,”
he said.
Flemming did propose, as did
some other Protestant spokes
men during the hearing, that
public authorities keep title to
the books to be supplied chil
dren in parochial schools and
that a clear public authority be
maintained over community ed
ucational centers.
FLANNERY O’CONNOR
T.V. Tribute For
Savannah Author
NEW YORK—Directions ‘65—
A Catholic Perspective, produc
ed by the Public Affairs Depart
ment of the American Broad
casting Company, in coopera
tion with the National Council
of Catholic Men, will present
“A Tribute to Flannery O’Con
nor.” The program will be tele
cast over the ABC-TV network
on Sunday, February 21st, U:00
Flannery O’Connor
pm-l:30 pm EST.)
“A Tribute to Flannery O’Con
nor”, written by Newsweek dra
ma critic Richard Gilman, is
•a moving exploration of the
brief but brilliant literary ca
reer of this young woman whose
life ended so prematurely on
August 3rd, 1964.
With excerpts from such strik
ing O’Connor stories as “The
River”, “A Good Man is Hard
to Find’’, and “The Displaced
Person”, the program attempts
to probe the wonder and mys
tery of this unusual genius.
Mr. Gilman’s personal re
membrances of his friendship
with Miss O’Connor, as well as
tributes from Saul Bellow, Tho
mas Merton, Robert Penn War
ren, and others, add up to-a
portrait of an artist whose per
ceptions and inventions left the
world a legacy of truth.
For NCCM Richard J. Walsh
is Executive Producer; F. J.
Fontinell, Producer. For ABC
Wiley Hance is the Producer.
Viewers are requested to con
sult their local TV listings for
time and Channel in their area.