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WASHINGTON (NC) - A na
tional Catholic ■ spokesman
charged here that a session on
family planning at the White
House Conference on Health
was “an insult to thousands of
Catholic agencies and millions
of American citizens.”
The protest was voiced by
Msgr. John C. Knott, direc
tor of the Family Life Bu
reau of the National catholic
Welfare Conference.
He said the absence at the
session of a spokesman for
the teaching of the Catholic
Church involved “censorship
of the most dangerous kind.”
Msgr. Knott’s statement re
ferred to a panel session on
family planning held during the
two-day White House confe
rence. (Nov. 3-4) which was
attended by some 600 leaders
in health fields from through
out the country.
Speakers at the family plan
ning session backed govern
ment birth control programs
and the official report of the
session said “all parts of go
vernment” should take lead
ership in this field.
One Catholic -- George
Shuster, assistant to the pre
sident of the UniversityofNo-
tre Dame—was on the panel.
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The floor discussion at the
session was dominated by re
presentatives of Planned Pa
renthood groups.
Msgr. Knott’s statement
said he wanted to protest “in
the strongest terms possible”
the “almost complete lack of
official Catholic representa
tion” at the conference in ge
neral.
“Of the more than 90 speak
ers listed on the conference
program,” he said, “only one
was identifiable as the repre
sentative of a Catholic insti
tution.”
He continued:
“In the panel discussions on
family planning there was no
one representing the pffical
teaching authority of the Ca
tholic Church. This session
was dominated and controlled
by the advocates of contra
ception and abortion and by
the promoters of government
interference into marital pri
vacy.
“The programming was an
insult to thousands of Catho
lic agencies and millions of
American citizens. It was
particularly demeaning that
the White House, the symbol
of everything good in our na
tion’s history, should be used
as a propaganda platform for
an anti-life philosophy which
is contradictory to our deepest
traditions.
“The very flagrancy of this
abuse of governmental power
demands an explanation. In
volved is censorship of the
most dangerous kind and one
that is contrary to the Amer
ican sense of justice and fair
play.”
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“Savannah is far behind
other Georgia cities in pro
viding industrial employ
ment,” said the Rev. William
V. Coleman, SOUTHERN
CROSS columnist, in an in
terview with the paper’s editor
this week. Father Coleman is
the author of a weekly column
“Cabbages and Kings”.
The interview was prompted
by criticism leveled at a
column by Father Coleman
last month which charged that
the proposed expenditure of
$5,000,000 for facilities to
promote tourism in Savannah
would provide an increase only
in menial jobs in motels and
restaurants, and urged that the
city expend even more for in
dustrial development.
Savannah’s Mayor Malcolm
Maclean outlined twelve steps
which he said city officials
had undertaken to develop the
industrial capacity of the city,
and voiced the hope that these
actions “wiU give you a
cheerier outlook on Sa
vannah’s economic future.”
The interview follows:
Q. Father Coleman, a few
weeks ago Savannah’s Mayor
presented a detailed reply to
your column, “On Tourism”.
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Are you satisfied with his
claim that Savannah is ex
periencing a rounded growth
in employment opportunity,
and now, three weeks later,
do you have a “cheerier out
look” on the economic future
of this city?
A. Quite the contrary. I am
increasingly disturbed by the
economic picture inSavannah.
In a letter which you published
in last week’s edition,I quoted
figures which indicated that
the State of Georgia is lag
ging in industrial employment
opportunities. I now have
statistics which I think most
Savannahians may find shock
ing.
Studies of the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor show that this
city is far behind other
Georgia cities in providing
industrial employment. Dur
ing the years 1958-1965, gov
ernment figures indicate that
Atlanta registered an increase
of 30% in industrial employ
ment; Augusta, a 16.6% rise;
Macon, 7.8% and Columbus,
5.4%, while Savannah could
report an increase of but 2%.
Q. Father Coleman, I’m
afraid most people don’t pay
too much attention to per
centile statistics. Does the
Labor department study tran
slate the percentages in terms
of real job increases?
A. Yes, it does. The figures
I just quoted mean that be
tween 1958 and 1965, Atlanta
added 24,600 people to the in
dustrial payrolls. Augusta in
creased its industrial employ
ment by 3,700 jobs. Macon and
Columbus added 900 jobs each.
Savannah showed an increase
of only 300 industrial jobs in
the same period of time. In
other words, both Columbus
and Macon showed an increase
three times that of Savannah.
Augusta’s increase was twelve
times that of Savannah and At
lanta’s was eighty- two times
as great.
Q. Officials of the Manpower
Development Training Act
claim that Savannah’s unem
ployment rate is the lowest
it has been for the past fifteen
years. Do the figures you have
quoted, then, have any par
ticular relevance £b the ec
onomic picture in Savannah
today?
A. I believe that they most
certainly do. The future is just
as important as today. And the
statistics I have set forth
mean that such a small rate
of industrial growth will not
produce any drastic upturn^
in the wage scale in this area.
They would also seem to in
dicate that unless a family
has its own business, or an
unusual opportunity devel-
opes, its children will have to.
leave Savannah, or settle for
a less lucrative occupation,
possibly in the tourist field.
If our population continues to
increase faster than industrial
occupations, there will be less
and less opportunity for the
young in Savannah.
Q. Father , some readers
have commented that this is
not a religious issue, and,
therefore, does not belongina
Catholic newspaper. Do you
feel your column is getting into
politics?
A. This whole question is
primarily an economic issue
with political and religious
overtones. Since it concerns
the well-being of people in
Savannah and indirectly af
fects their religious life, I
feel that it has a place in a
Catholic paper. Pope John
XXIH wrote an entire ency
clical on similar problems.
Pope Paul has appeared at the
U. N. and spoken clearly for
the temporal rights of the
poor. In Mater et Magistra,
Pope John said, “It is neces
sary that economic undertak
ings be governed by justice
and charity as the principal
laws of social life.” This
certainly ties our problem
to the mission of the Church.
On the other hand, it isn’t
entirely a political issue
either. I was sorry to see
our mayor answer the ori
ginal article and thus assume
responsibility for Savannah’s
failure. I think that the ans
wer should have come from
the Chamber of Commerce
or some similar organization.
Every failure in the economy;
is not a governmental failure,
unless, of course, political
leaders are remiss in their
obligations to the people.
Q. Do you feel that Savan
nah’s political leaders have
been remiss?
A. I really could not say.
This would be entering into
the field of politics, and I
have no intention of doing that.
Q. If we may change the sub
ject for a moment, it has been
alledged that your columns
are designedly controversial
in nature, is this true?
A. No, not at all. Each time
I find I am involved in a con
troversy, I promise myself
that this will be the last time.
Yet, when an issue arises
and no one else is willing to
discuss it, I feel an obliga
tion to help people become
aware of it. I suppose this
brings on controversy. I would
rather think of it as dialogue,
an honest interchange of view
points which can help us find
the truth.
Q. In this age of Ecumenism
do you think your entry into
such local problems may hurt
the image of the Church?
A. If it does, people have
been looking at the wrong
image of the Church. For the
past seventy years, one pope
after another has spoken out
strongly on social questions.
In the end, people will come
to love the Church because
the Church demonstrates she
loves them. It is certainly a
concern for the people of Sa
vannah which urges the Church
to speak in their behalf. This
is an act of love and will not,
I think, go unrewarded. At
any rate, the Church must
never compromise the vir
tue of justice for the rewards
of popularity. And ecumenism,
I am sure, runs much deeper
than popularity.
Q. One final question,
Father, do your views reflect
official catholic policy?
A. At times they do and at
times they may not. Certainly
when I write on a matter of
clear moral principle, they
do. When I attempt to apply
this principle to an individual
case, I may err. I do hope
that our readers will think
of it this way and, whenever
the Spirit moves them, pre
sent their viewpoints. This
will be the dialogue in which
truth is found.
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The Southern Cross, November 11, 1965—PAGE 3
OUSTER SOUGHT
Professor At
Emory U. Says
‘God Is Dead’
ATLANTA (RNS)—Pres
sure was building here for the
dismissal of* an exponent of
the “God is dead” theology
from the faculty of Emory
University, a Methodist in
stitution.
Under attack--from alumni,
a retired Methodist bishop
and prospective benefactors
of the university—was Dr.
Thomas J. Altizer, pro
ponent of a theological view
that finds little hospitality in
this fundamentalist part of the
country.
The 38-year-old associate
professor was thrust into na
tional prominence when Time,
the national news-magazine,
identified him as one of the
leading exponents of the ‘ ‘God
is dead” movement, a theolo
gical position earnestly advo
cated by a number of younger
theologians in recent months.
Thus far the university has
resisted pressure to dismiss
Dr. Altizer who has tenure
at the school.
Retired Bishop Arthur J.
Moore maintained that there is
no place in a college based
on Methodist principles “for
a man who denies the basic
tenets of that faith”. He added
that he was aware that Dr.
Altizer had tenure at the
school and commented:
“That’s part of the problem.”
Dr. William R. Cannon, dean
of the university’s Candler
School of Theology, felt that
the pressure of protests
coming to his office warrant
ed a response and he issued
a 1,400-word statement which
was printed in full by at least
one of Atlanta’s newspapers.
His statement, in essence,
disavowed any responsibility
for Dr. Altizer, pointing out
that the instructor is not a
member of the theology school
faculty, but of the university
itself; that the theology school
had nothing to do with his
hiring; that Dr. Altizer is
neither a Methodist nor a
clergyman but a layman and
“therefore he is free from
ecclesiastical direction.”
Dean Cannon said that as
far as he knew “there is no
one either in the board of
trustees or in the central
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administration of the univer
sity who, if he had tutored
himself in Dr. Altizer’s
thought, would subscribe to his
principles.
“In fact”, he continued, “it
is very difficult to know what
those principles are.”
Dr. Altizer has maintained
that God is indeed dead, that
his death occured in the pre
sent era and that Christians
must affirm this fact.
In the July 7 issue of the
ecumenical weekly, Christian
Century, he wrote: “To speak
the name of God in a time of
his withdrawal is nothing less
than blasphemy, a blasphemy
that profanes the holiness of
God and makes a mockery of
a faith that once gave a wit
ness to his presence.”
But equally important, Dr.
Altizer stated, is the reality of
Christ. “We Christans are
called upon to be loyal only to
Christ,” he wrote, “only to
the Incarnate Word who has
appeared in our flesh, and
therefore we should already
have been prepared for the
appearance of Christ without
God.”
Like other theologians pro
pounding the “death of God”
ideas, he has stressed the
need to follow the example of
Christ in ministering to the
needs of man in every aspect
of society.
His views on the “death of
God”, he said, were presented
only in graduate seminars.
Dr. Sanford S. Atwood, the
university president, called
Dr. Altizer “a professor who
feels he has an idea worth
discussing.” And, the presi
dent added, “he has the right
to do so.”
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