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Johnson Asks
Laws To Curb
Ku Klux Klan
DIOCESE AIDS HOSPITAL DRIVE — Bishop Thomas J. McDonough presents
check for $50,000.00 to B. I. Friedman, Co-chairman of Fund raising drive for
St. Joseph’s Hospital, Savannah. W. Kirk Sutlive (I.) also a co-chairman and
Chairman H. Hansell Hillyer look on approvingly. Check was gift from Diocese
of Savannah. (Staff photo by Bob Ward)
STUDYING BIRTH CONTROL
Pope Stresses Urgency
Of Commission’s Work
FIERY DEBATE
Opposition Charges
House ‘Railroaded’
School Aid Measure
WASHINGTON (NC) -- Presi
dent Johnson has called for legis
lation to control the Ku Klux Klan
in the wake of FBI arrests of four
men identified as Klan members
in the slaying of Mrs. Viola Liuz-
zo, 39, on an Alabama highway.
Mr. J hnson said (March 26)
he has instructed Attorney Gene
ral Nicholas Katzenbach to begin
w^jt on legislation “that will
b^B the activities of the Klan
under effective control of the
law.”
The President said he hoped
to submit the legislation to Con
gress as soon as his voting
rights bill is passed.
Observers here, recalled the
Klan’s activities against Catho
lics, as well as Negroes in the
exercise of their political and
civil rights.
Within the past year, a cir
cular distributed in a drive for
Klan membership in Mississippi
stated that Catholics are excluded
because “they bow to a Roman
dictator, in direct violation of
the First Commandment and the
true American spirit of respon
sible, individual liberty.” Jews,
Negroes and Orientals also were
described as ineligible for mem
bership.
A successor to the KKK,
formed in 1866 and disbanded
in 1869, the Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan was founded in 1915
by William J. Simmons at Stone
Mountain, Ga., as a nativist
movement aimed against Catho
lics, Negroes, Jews, aliens and
radicals.
The revived klan concentrated
its opposition on Alfred E. Smith,
four times governor of New York,
and a strong contender for the
presidential nomination at the
democratic conventions of 1920,
1924 and 1928. In the national
eljl^m of 1928, the KKK was
fc^Bbst in attacking Smith, on
his Tammany connections, his
opposition to prohibition but
particularly his Catholic faith.
The campaign, in which Gov.
Smith was defeated, was called
the most bigoted campaign in
history.
In 1946, the Civil Rights Divi
sion of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation launched an investi
gation of KKK activities in seven
states.
This forced members of the
klan to go underground. In some
jurisdictions klan leaders au
thorized a disbandment. How
ever, recent events in Alabama
and other southern states has
revealed a resurgence.
A Klan leader said the group
would fight back. “We’re going
to put President Johnson back
on the spot,” said Calvin F.
Craig, Grand Dragon of the Klan
in Georgia. “He has jumped on
the white people of the South.”
Robert M. Shelton, Jr., Im
perial Wizard, called the Presi
dent a “damned liar” for his
remarks about the Klan.
Mr. Johnson described the Klan
as “a hooded society of bigots”
and appealed to members “to
get out of the Ku Klux Klan and
enter decent society now, before
it is too late.”
Mrs. Liuzzo, a Detroit house
wife and mother of five, was
shot to death from another can
while driving from Selma to
Montgomery. She and Leroy Mo-
ton, 19, a Negro from Selma, were
shuttling participants in the mas
sive civil rights demonstration
in Montgomery last week back
to Selma.
The murder brought angry
reactions from government
leaders. Vice President Hubert
Humphrey said “the Klan speaks
for itself. Its brutality, discri
mination, intolerance and bigotry
do not fit the pattern of our demo
cratic society.”
Mrs. Liuzzo’s body was flown
back to Detroit (March 27) in an
executive plane provided by the
Teamsters Union. Liuzzo is a
Teamsters business agent.
VATICIAN CITY--Speaking to
members of his special study
group on the problems of family
and birth regulation, Pope Paul VI
cited the “urgency” of a situ
ation which he said “demands
very clear guidance of the Church
and its highest authority.”
ThePontiff received the special
commission in an audience March
7, but his remarks were not made
public until last Sunday.
Declaring that the Church wel
comes “old things and new”, he
reminded commission members
of “the levels at which your re
search is carried out; on the one
hand, a better knowledge of physi
ological laws, of psychological
and medical data, of demographic
movements and social upheavals;
on the other and above all, the
level of the higher light which
shines on these facts, the data
of faith and of the traditional
teaching of the Church.”
He set forth the problem occa-
BISHOP THOMAS QUINLAN, Vi
car Apostolic of Chunchon,
Korea, said in Los Angeles
(March 25) that if the forces of
freedom lost in Vietnam, “we’ve
lost Asia.” The 61 -year-old Co-
lumban missionary, who survived
the 1950 death march in Korea,
has worked in Asia since his
ordination in 1920.
(NC Photos)
sioned by world-wide contro
versy concerning “the very ur
gent questions of married cou
ples” and “economic and social
problems which. . .the Church
cannot ignore” this way:
“In what form and according
to what norms must married cou
ples fulfill, in the exercise of
their mutual love, this service
of life to which they are called
by their vocation?”
He called for an answer “in
spired by a consciousness of the
duties and the dignity of the con-
ALBANY, N.Y. (NC) -- New
movie censorship prodecures de
signed to comply with directives
of the U. S. Supreme Court have
been adopted by the State Board
of Regents.
Under the new procedures, the
burden of proof that a film is ob
scene will rest with the state
censors, and the administrative
and judicial process will be
speeded up.
These were the major points of
a Supreme Court ruling March 1
in a Maryland case which upheld
prior censorship of motion pic
tures but required that censor
ship procedures contain safe
guards for constitutionally-pro
tected films.
On March 15 the high court
reversed a New York ban on a
Danish movie, citing its March
1 ruling as its reason for doing
so. This was taken to mean that
the court considered New York’s
censorship system deficient in
the same ways as Maryland’s.
Hugh M. Flick, associate com-
jugal state, in which the love of
Christian married couples is en
nobled by the grace of the sacra
ment (of Matrimony) and by the
greatness of the gift which is
called life, given to the child,”
and reminded the commission
that “the question is too im
portant, the uncertainties of some
persons are too painful for you
not to feel driven by a sense of
urgency. ...”
“. . .You must understand
the anguish of so many souls
and work with diligence without
being concerned with criticism
and difficulties,” he said.
missioner of the state Depart
ment of Education, said there is
a good chance that the state will
seek to reimpose its earlier ban
on the Danish movie, “A Stran
ger Knocks,” acting under the
new procedures.
State censors originally re
fused to grant a license for the
film’s exhibition unless two
scenes they judged obscene were
deleted.
Under th e new system films
are to be submitted in advance
of exhibition to the Motion Pic
ture Division of the state edu
cation Department, whose direc
tor must make a decision with
in five days.
If the decision is to refuse a
license, the matter then goes
automatically to the Com
missioner of Education or his
representative.
If the commissioner also goes
along with the ban, the Education
Department then must “forth
with” turn to the courts of judi
cial authorization of its action.
WASHINGTON (NC) — The
House passed President John
son’s Federal aid to education
bill 263 to 153 after three days
of fiery debate, often centering
on parochial school pupils’ in
volvement.
Republican opponents charged
that the measure failed to spell
out how parochial and other pri
vate school pupils would benefit,
thus ignoring what they saw as
a major constitutional issue.
The Democratic leadership de
fended the constitutionality of
the proposal, noted the wide-
ranging support it has among
religious and educational groups
and insisted that matters of pol
icy about specifics of involve
ment by private school pupils
must be settled on the local
level.
The Democratic majority
swept aside a variety of pro
posed amendments to cries from
Republicans that the bill was
being railroaded through . One
amendment killed would have
provided for almost automatic
court review of the legislation.
Parochial and other private
school pupils in the same low in
come bracket would benefit
through extension to them by
local public school districts of
shared services and facilities. It
was this provision that drew
much of the GOP fire.
In addition, $100 million would
be provided to buy textbooks,
library materials and instruc
tional equipment.
In the case of parochial school
pupils, these books and materials
would be lent to them. Title
would be retained in the hands
of a state or local public agency.
The House debate saw sharp
exchanges on inclusion of paro
chial pupils. Rep. Charles Good-
ell of New York, who directed
Republican opposition, charged
that the bill was unclear about
permitting public school teach
ers to enter private schools.
Arguing that such use of teach
ers was unconstituionalandglos-
LAETARE MEDALIST — Dr.
Frederick D. Rossini, dean of
the College of Science, Univer
sity of Notre Dame, is this year’s
recipient of the Laetare Medal,
awarded each year on the fourth
Sunday of Lent by the University
to an outstandingAmericanCath-
olic layman. Dr. Rossini was
cited for “nearly 40 years of
dedicated service to science,
higher education and govern
ment.”
(NC Photos)
sed over in the measure, Goodell
drew strong denials from Rep.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., of
New York, chairman of the House
Education Committee, and other
Democratic committee mem
bers.
Powell and the others conceded
that a public school expert in re
medial education might offer a
class in a parochial school, but
that this would be a public school
program and that the site of such
classes was a detail to be settled
on the local level.
Rep. Frank Thompson , Jr.,
of New Jersey and Rep. Hugh
Carey of New York, both mem
bers of the education committee,
said public school teachers could
legitimately enter a private
school to offer special services
for the needy pupils.
Goodell said, “I believe we
should be writing a bill to truly
help the private school pupils
as well as the public school
pupils.
“But I tell the members that
this kind of provision is very
questionable. As surely as I am
standing here, no competent con
stitutional authority is going to
draw the line constitutionally for
public school teachers going into
private schools as to whether
they are remedial teachers or
nonremedial teachers of educa
tional subjects.”
WASHINGTON (NC) — Father
John F. Cronin, S.S., stressed it
is “imperative that the Congress
respond to the moral indignation
of the .nation by the enactment of
the Voting Rights Act of 1965.”
The assistant director of the
Social Action Department, Na
tional Catholic Welfare Con
ference, joined with Rabbi
Richard Hirsch of the Synagogue
Council of America, and Dr.
Robert W. Spike, executive direc
tor, and Dr. J. Oscar Lee, as
sociate executive director, of the
National Council of Churches’
commission on religion and race,
in a statement on the legislation
being considered by a House
Judiciary subcommittee.
The statement reminded the
legislators that 20 months ago
U.S. religious groups in a pe
tition submitted to Congress em
phasized that safeguards be es
tablished for the right to register
and vote.
The spokesmen for the three
major religious faiths advocated
the bill be broadened so it would
apply to all areas where Negroes
are prevented from voting, and
not be limited to pinpointing six
states as now provided in the
measure.
“We urge that the formula
prescribing the geographical
areas to be covered, be broad
enough to apply to all areas in
which persons attempting to reg
ister and to vote experience diffi
culty because of race or color,”
the statement said.
On the final day of debate
(March 26), Thompson read a
statement which he said inter
preted the provision for aid to
parochial pupils.
Special services, he said, must
be distinguished from general
educational assistance. Public
school boards could make avail
able the services of experts such
as guidance counselors, speech
therapists, remedial reading
specialists and social workers.
Thompson’s statement and
such services could be offered
in public schools, in community
centers or even in the paro
chial school itself.
The intensity of the debate,
which included shouted exchanges
and cheers of supporters on both
sides, drew Speaker John W.
McCormack into the fray.
As the GOP barrage about
“railroading” reached a high
point shortly before the final
vote (March 27), McCormack
jumped to his feet to declare,
“There is some kind of inti
midation implied here and I must
say I don’t like it.”
The amendment for court re
view was defeated 204 to 154.
Rep. Emanuel Celler of New
York influential chairman of the
House Judiciary Committee, ar
gued that the amendment was
unnecessary and undesirable.
“We believe that any provision
that would unnecessarily delay
and complicate the prompt regis
tration of citizens is intolerable.
Once the need for federal exami
ners has been established, we
wish to stress the necessity for
making access to their services
available immediately,” the
statement said.
The religious leaders advo
cated the abolition of the poll
tax. They urged that the penal
ties provision of the measure
cover every type of intimidation
and coercion employed to deny
Negroes the right to register
and vote.
“Another abridgement of hu
man rights is the poll tax which
historically has been and is now
being applied to deprive persons
of the right to vote because of
race or color. We recommend
strongly that the proposed legis
lation eliminate the poll tax as
a prerequisite to registration or
voting,” the statement said.
“We urge the penalties pro
vided in section 7 be extended to
cover every type of intimidation
and coercion which are employed
to deny persons the opportunity to
register as well as to vote,”
the statement declared.
Summing up the recommenda
tions, the statement said; “These
observations flow from ouiv con
cern to condemn clearly and un
equivocally the injustice of voting
discrimination and t o call for a
remedy that is both prompf-and
comoletely effective.
HEADLINE /■*
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CANADA
T.V. Clean Up
OTTAWA, Ont. (NC)--A demand that the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation “clean up” Canadian television programs has been
made by some 76,000 Canadian women.
The petitions supported a “Declaration by Canadian Women”
which asks that Parliament “end the domination of a minority who
misuse the CBC to spread propaganda for perversion, pornography,
free love, dope, violence and crime.”
EUROPE
Conditional Baptism
• HANOVER, Germany (NC)—The Bishop’s Conference of the
United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany has stated that
it is ready to discuss Catholic proposals on the question of con
ditional baptism. The practice of giving conditional baptism to
L^Bran converts to Catholicism, when it is not certain that the
coB't has been baptized properly earlier, has caused friction
between the two churches.
VATICAN
Pope Prays For Peace
VATICAN CITY (NC)--Thousands of persons who gathered in St.
Peter’s square on Laetare Sunday heard Pope Paul VI ask for
prayers to dispel the tensions of war “which darkens the sky with
its somber omens.”
“Let us therefore pray for those who really want peace and who
sincerely write, speak and work to maintain and promote it. Let us
also pray for those who do not want peace, that a sense of respon
sibility may inspire better thoughts in them.” he said.
STRIKE AT OBSCENITY
New Film Laws
For N. Y. State
L i WMAKERS TOLD
Right To Yote
Law Imperative