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The Southern Cross, February 4, 1965—PAGE.3
FIRST FAMILY ATTENDS
Appeal For Justice At
Washington Red Mass
WASHINGTON (NO—A Cath
olic university president said
here that “universal solicitude
for the dignity and rights of
every citizen” should mark the
U.S. system of government.
This admonition was given by
Father Gerard J. Campbell,
S.J., president of Georgetown
University, in his sermon at the
annual Red Mass in St. Mat
thew’s cathedral here (Jan. 31).
Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle
of Washington celebrated the
CYO Member
Makes Top 40
Science List
Christopher Roth, member of
St. Francis Xavier Parish
Brunswick and student at Glynn
Academy, has been advised by
the director of the Westinghouse
Science Talent competition that
he has been listed in the top 40
in the nation for 1965 seniors in
science.
First student from South Geor
gia to ever receive this recogni
tion, Roth is active in CYO ac-
| |(vities and is a regular Mass
Server at St. Francis Xavier.
He is the recipient of a $250.00
honorarium scholarship at the
present time and has been invit
ed on an expense-free trip to
Washington, D.C., to compete
with the other top 39 science
students in the nation for a to
tal of $39,000 in scholarships.
Already announced as a semi
finalist in the National Merit
competitions, it is anticipated by
Glynn Academy officials that
Roth’s scholarship possibilities
will be greatly enhanced by
recognition of the Westinghouse
group.
Mass.
Sponsored by the John Car-
roll Society, a local laymen’s
organization, the Red Mass was
attended by government offici
als and many lawyers and for
eign diplomats.
Heading the dignitaries in at
tendance were President and
Mrs. Johnson. The President
was making his first public ap
pearance since coming down
with a heavy cold that hospital
ized him. With the Johnsons
were their younger daughter
Luci, and her friend Paul Betz,
a student at Mount St. Mary’s
College in Emmitsburg, Md.
Also at the Mass were Speak
er of the House and Mrs. John
W. McCormack and Supreme
Court Associate Justice William
J. Brennan, Jr.
Father Campbell cited St.
Louis, 13th century French king,
as a model for public officials.
“He understood profoundly the
restraints and limitations of hu
man power, granted by God, for
the governance of men created
in His honor,’’ he said.
“He, in his own way, in cir
cumstances vastly different from
ours, faced the same human
problems and opportunities.
Even before the advent of
switchblades and zip guns, he
had to use strong measures to
protect his subjects from attack
by thieves and murderers. Those
who held the reins of political
and economic power were just
as tempted to abuse it in the
13th century as they are now.
“In the midst of his various
duties, he remembered that the
power given him was entrusted
to his hands for the common
good, for the welfare and prog
ress of all ... He always dealt
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with his subjects as creatures
of God; he never forgot that the
law had its foundations in God’s
law and in the needs of man’s
nature. This was the heart of
his kingship and his sainthood.”
“Unfortunately, the very tech
nicalities and complexities of
the law and its administration
often lead to a misunderstand
ing of its true nature.
“A caricature emerges from
many of our bestsellers and
from our television programs.
Law wears a grim and forbid
ding face. It is synonymous with
arid, technical language, with
clever verbal jousting, and with
bitter penalties imposed by pro
fessional sadists. This carica
ture has achieved an unfortun
ate popularity in our nation. It
does a great injustice to our
legislators who devote their en
ergy and talent to the framing
of our statutes. It ignores the
great public service performed
by justices and executives who
struggle to preserve the liberty
and property of our citizens.
Lastly, it takes no account of
the essential role played by law
yers who devote their lives to
the defense and protection of
the rich and poor, the powerful
and the helpless.
“As we direct our humble
pleas for divine assistance, we
should also take occasion to add
a special word of thanksgiving
that we have had in our na
tion’s history so many men of’
honor, of courage, of integrity
and sincerity, men who labored
to realize the fullness of their
vocation of service to God in
the service of their fellowmen.
I think, for instance, of our late
and lamented President Kenne
dy who had a great deal of
Saint Louis’ human compas
sion. I think of President Her
bert Hoover, grown old and
grey in the service of his coun
try and his fellowmen. I cannot
help but think of another not of
this nation, but one whom we
share with all the world, that
intrepid warrior for the free
dom, the dignity, and the rights
of men, Sir Winston Churchill.”
Scouting
Reforms
Defended
PARIS (NC)—A top official of
the Catholic Boy Scout organiza
tion in France scoffed at char
ges that recent reforms are
Soviet-influenced and said the
case is just the opposite.
Francois Lebouteux, assistant
national commissioner of the
Catholic Scouts, spoke after cri
ticism by a newletter issued by
the Civic Information Center, a
body directed by a well-known
Gaullist, Christian Barbe. The
publication asserted that under
the influence of a few men of
left-wing tendencies, the French
Scout movement, of which the
Catholic Scouts constitute by
far the largest group, has be
come the instrument of “mass
action”.
Among the reforms most loud
ly questioned by the newsletter
was the decision of Catholic
Scouts to replace the traditional
khaki shirt with a scarlet one
as part of the uniform of boys
13 to 17 years old called “pio
neers”.
Lebouteux declared that the
pioneers’ red shirt traces its or
igin not to the Soviet Union but
to the United States. “In effect
we borrowed the idea from the
American ‘explorers’ (boys 14
to 17 who wear a red winter
jacket as part of their uniform
while their shirt is green) and
we adopted it exactly to take
away from the communists the
monopoly of the red color,” he
pointed out.
The newsletter had criticized
the recent reform according to
which each Boy Scout troop in
France makes its decision by
vote instead of following the
leader’s directives. Lebouteux
declared that the French Scout
movement had become formalis
tic and that it was now neces
sary to make the boys under
stand they live within a human
community which goes even be
yond national frontiers.
“The others are wrong when
they criticize us in political
terms. That is not the case be
cause we are faithful to the
ideals of Baden-Powell (the Brit
ish founder of the Scout Move
ment). There is no such thing
as ‘new scouts’, no more than
there are ‘new priests’ or a
‘new religion’,” Lebouteux de
clared.
NAMING CARDINALS
Church’s Needs
Guided Pontiff
CAPITAL’S RED MASS — President Lyndon B. Johnson, accompanied by his.
daughter, Luci Baines Johnson, and her escort, Paul Betz of Washington, entering
St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington last Sunday (Jan. 31). Mrs. Johnsojn,
who also attended the annual Red Mass, traditionally associated with the opening
of the judicial term, had preceded the President into the Cathedral (NC Photos)
SENSITIVE NERVE
‘Right To Work’ Long
Time Catholic Issue
WASHINGTON (NC) — Presi
dent Johnson, in pledging to
seek repeal of the Taft-Hartley
Act’s “right to work” provi
sions, touched a sensitive nerve
in American Catholicism.
The President said in his
State of the Union Message
that by aiming for removal of
Taft-Hartley’s right-to-work sec
tion he hoped to “reduce con
flicts that for several years
have divided Americans in var
ious states.”
Such conflicts have broken out
time and again among Ameri
can Catholics.
In the past decade-and-a-half
the U.S. Catholic community has
produced impassioned declara
tions on both sides of the right-
to-work issue.
Overall it appears that Catho-
1 i c opponents of right-to-work
laws (at least among those who
have won a hearing in the pub
lic forum) outnumber support
ers. Certainly, since 1958, they
can claim the most authorita
tive direct sanction for their
views — in the form of a joint
statement issued by the Catho
lic bishops of Ohio on March 20
cf that year solidly opposing
right-to-work laws. Several in
dividual Catholic bishops in var
ious parts of the country have
also spoken out against such
laws.
But Catholic right-to-work de
fenders appear entrenched and
adamant. It seems more than
likely that, when President John
son makes his definitive more
into this area, the ensuing con
troversy will once again find
Catholics on both sides.
Section 14-B of the Taft-Hart
ley Act, which was enacted by
Congress in 1947 over President
Truman’s veto, is not a right-
to-work law itself. Instead, it
authorizes state laws for this
purpose.
Right-to-work laws, it has of
ten been pointed out, are not
exactly what their name im
plies. “They give no one the
right to work, nor do they ob
tain jobs for anyone out of
work,” declared a recent state
ment by the Social Action Com
mission of the New Mexico
Council of Churches (which in
cludes the Santa Fe archdio
cese).
What these laws do instead is
to outlaw so-called “union shop”
arrangements between labor
and management under which
new employes of a business are
required to join a union within
a certain period — usually 30
days — after being hired.
Several arguments are ad
vanced against the union shop
and in favor of right-to-work
laws. Perhaps the most funda
mental is that the very notion
of compulsory union member
ship violates the right of an in
dividual to join an organization
or not as he pleases.
A second argument is that it
is especially wrong to compel
workers as a condition of em
ployment to join and remain in
unions which are corrupt, com
munist-run or otherwise unde
sirable.
Finally, in an argument pe
culiar to Catholic participants
in the debate, right-to-work ad
vocates argue that because past
papal statements have favored
Catholic unions and merely tol
erated Catholic membership in
so-called “neutral” unions, it is
out of the question to compel
workers to belong to the latter
type of union which is said to
be barely tolerated by the Holy
See.
Right-to-work opponents have
replies to all of these argu
ments.
On the alleged per se objec
tionableness of compulsory un
ionism under union shop agree
ments, they note that the right
to work is not absolute but is
inevitably hedged round by a
number of conditions and re
strictions. There is no intrinsic
reason, they say, why the re
quirement that a worker join a
union should not be one of
these.
Achbishop Henry J. O’Brien
of Hartford, Conn., said in 1957
that it is “neither immoral nor
unethical to require union mem
bership for the greater com
mon good of the group. In our
modern and complex society
everyone is subject to prohibi
tions and restraints as well as
to mandatory rules of conduct
based on the common good...”
As for the charge that com
pulsory union membership bene
fits corrupt unions, foes of right-
to-work concede that this may
sometimes be so. But they ar
gue that right-to-work laws,
which punish good unions, are
not the answer. They subscribe
to the words of the Ohio bish
ops: “There are certain abuses
which sometimes creep into the
labor movement, but . . . ‘right
to work’ laws are not the pro
per means to correct them.”
The question of the popes’ sup
posed antipathy to compulsory
membership in neutral unions
is similarly dismissed. Studied
in their historical context, it
is said, the papal statements
refer mainly to the European
experience of a Marxist-oriented
labor movement. Father John
F. Cronin, S.S., in his 1959 book
“Social Principles and Econom
ic Life,” commented that, in
view of the many forms of un
ionism in various parts of the
world “at least tolerated by”
the Holy See, it is “a bit far
fetched to bring up this point
in connection with the right to
work controversy.”
The main argument of right-
to-work opponents is that these
laws benefit “free loaders” —
workers who profit from union
ism (since a union must by law
represent all workers within its
collective bargaining unit, wheth
er members or not) without
joining the union themselves.
The outlines of President John
son’s effort to strike the right-
to-work provision from the Taft-
Hartley Act have yet to take
shape. It is a safe bet, though,
that as the controversy develops
in the months ahead, Catholics
will be heard loud and clear —
on both sides.
VATICAN CITY (NO — Pope
Paul VI said he has increased
the membership of the College
of Cardinals not for the sake
of “numerical inflation” but to
meet the “true needs of the
Church” today.
The Pope commented on his
naming 27 new cardinals to
raise membership in the college
to a record 103 at his regular
weekly general audience (Jan.
27).
Noting the speculation that
has followed the appointments,
the Pope said his decision to
enlarge the college stemmed
from his desire to make more
effective and valuable “in the
exercise of our apostolic office,
according to needs and in var
ious ways, the assistance of our
brothers in the episcopate, as
has already happened and as
can occur more effectively in
the future.”
“Toward this end,” he con
tinued, “our intention is to give
to the Sacred. College an ex
pression of fuller communion
and of more effective represen
tation of authority, of collegiali-
ty, of experience, of tradition,
of cultures and of merit. You
have seen in this regard the
variety of qualifications which
distinguish the new members of
the College of Cardinals.
“We tell you this since the
Roman Church cannot be a clos
ed fold, immobile, self-centered
and exclusive, but rather should
be the indispensable center of
a flock which is gathered to
gether: yes, a single, open and
many - formed flock of Christ,
wonderfully characte r i z e d by
the complementary nature of its
constitutional parts, unity and
catholicity, authority and broth
erhood, the identity of the faith
in the boundless and vast
breadth of charity.”
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Population Studies
WASHINGTON (NC) — The
U.S. Alliance for Progress will
spend about $1 million in this
fiscal year and a like amount
next year to assist population
growth studies in Latin Ameri
ca.
Dr. Edgar F. Berman, a Bal
timore, Md., physician who is
director of the Alliance’s popu
lation office, said the program
is designed to help South Ameri
can nations get facts on their
population increase.
In an interview, Dr. Berman
said no U.S. money will be
spent on distribution of the
means of artificial birth control.
Rather, funds will be given to
a host of institutions, including
several operated! by Catholic
agencies, which are engaged in
growth studies or the training
of demographers who chart-
such growth.
The program directed by Dr.
Berman stems from Congres
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authorization for the U.S. for
eign aid program to assist re
search in overseas population
patterns.
When the proposal was before
Congress, it was stripped of a
second recommendation to per
mit U.S. support of technical
assistance to curb population
growth. Presumably this would
have included distribution of
contraceptives.
Dr. Berman said that under
the present program, “we want
Latin American countries to get
their facts, to get their sociolog
ical and demographic institu
tions established! and let them
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whether they will or will not
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