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PAGE 2 — The Southern Cross, February 5,1970
AT DUBLIN MEETING
Social Apostolate Office
Calls For Ties With OEO
The plight of community
action programs sponsored by
the Office of Economic
Opportunity (OEO) was the
focus of attention at the
January meeting of the Social
Apostolate Staff and
Advisory Committee for the
Diocese of Savannah. The
meeting was held at Dublin.
A spokesman for the
Social Apostolate diocesan
office said discussion centeed
around what he termed
OEO’s fight for existence as
well as for funds, and that
Social Apostolate staff and
advisory members agreed that
“it is essential that the
personnel of the Social
Apostolate get into the OEO
agencies.”
“Generally speaking,” the
spokesman said, “we could
conclude that the OEO
agencies are not
accomplishing their goals.
They seem to have the funds,
but not the drive, whereas the
Social Apostolate seeminlgy
has the drive but not the
funds.” Better results could
be produced, he said, if the
two organizations could work
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The purpose of both
groups, he said, is the same,
Social Action at the
grass-roots level. He cited as a
danger to social action
programs the fact that “the
Social Apostolate does only
the so-called emergency
work, while the OEO is left
with, and does, only the
social political action,“ and
said co-operative action could
produce better results.
The spokesman said those
attending the meeting felt
that all social agencies seem
to be going on different
tracks and that the structures
must be changed so that poor
people can have a voice in
OEO.
He said Social Apostolate
staff members also feel that
they must seek places on
OEO local boards because
“the power of the poor is
necessary, but the power of
the middle class is- most
helpful, also.”
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members also want
“approved and full-time
independent status and the
accompanying authority for
its objectives” seeking
positions on OEO boards,
co-operative efforts with
OEO, and bringing the voice
of the poor more into the
councils of social agencies
which are designed to help
them, he declared.
Apostolate staff and
advisory members, the
spokesman continued, will
seek to develop an “action
office” as a base to work
from and an “action team” to
institute and implement
Apostolate programs.
In the present diocesan
structure, the spokesman
said, the Diocesan
Coordinator of the Social
Apostolate stands alone and
that “the brunt of any
criticism” can be leveled at
him, alone. A diocesan office
or center could better absorb
and profit by any criticism,
he declared.
He noted, however, that
Social Apostlate staff
members do not concieve of
an “action team” in a
negative sense, but as
providing “many advantages
for the accomplishment of
even greater good” than can
be accomplished by the
diocesan coordinator, alone.
The meeting closed with
the adoption of four
resolutions. One declared that
“Sensing the need for
GROUP support for our
Diocesan Coordinator, this
group UNANIMOUSLY
supports the following
resolution: “We wish to
thank our Diocesan
Coordinator, Father William
Dowling, for his unselfish
dedication to the cause of
Social Justice.”
In other Resolutions,
Social Apostolate staff and
advisory members asked that
Bishop Gerard L. Frey assign
a second priest and Sister as
Associate coordinators to the
Diocesan Office of the Social
Apostolate; that the Bishop
assign a full-time director to
the Social Apostolate in each
major city of the diocese; and
that priority in the
resolutions be given to the
Diocesan Office.
Attending the meeting
were Father Dowling;
Columbus Social Service
Bureau members Sr. Julian
Griffin, Sr. Joseph Murphy,
and Father Eugene
Brocktrup; Sr. M. Hope of
Mt. de Sales, Macon; Father
Michael O’Sullivan of St.
Joseph, Macon; Sr. Catherine
Moore of the Social
Apostolate office in
Savannah; and Father John
Garvey of Sacred Heart,
Waynesboro.
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Changes Set
This weekend in the K of
C Parochial School League
three games have been
changed from the original
schedule by agreement among
the coaches involved. The
new schedule for this week is
- Saturday, February 7 at
1:00 P.M. Sacred Heart girls -
St. Mary girls, 2:00 P.m.
Sacred Heart Boys -- Nativity
boys, 3:00 P.M. St. Michael
girls - Blessed Sacrament girls,
4:00 P.m. St. Michael boys -
Blessed Sacrament boys. On
Sunday February 8 at 1:00
P.M. Cathedral girls - St.
James girls, 2:00 P.M.
Cathedral boys - St. James
boys 3:00 P.M. Nativity girls -
Sacred Heart girls, 4:00 P.M.
St. Mary boys - Sacred Heart
boys. All games this weekend
will be played in the Sacred
Heart gym.
Scores last week in the
boys division: Blessed
Sacrament 37 - St. James 27.
St. Mary 39, - Nativity 18,
St.Michael 45, Sacred Heart
29, Blessed Sacrament 32 -
Cathedral 21.
In the girls division Blessed
Sacrament 25 - St. James 22,
Nativity 22 - St. Mary 18.
Sacred Heart 31 - St. Michael
22, Blessed Sacrament 42 -
Cathedral 15.
League standings after five
weekends of play are:
BOYS Won
St. Mary 6
Blessed Sacrament 5
St. James 3
St. Michael 3
Nativity 2
Cathedral 1
Sacred Heart 0
Lost 1
0
1
3
3
4
4
5
GIRLS
Blessed Sacrament
Nativity
St. Mary
Sacred Heart
St. James
Cathedral
St. Michael
WON
6
5
4
2
2
1 .
0
LOST
0
1
2
3
4
4
6
ARCHBISHOP Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans takes time out of a busy schedule to visit with
two Poster Children for the March of Dimes. Eight-year-old Marty Mini Mack (right), National
Poster Child, presents the Archbishop with a badge while five-year-old Paul Schmit, Poster Child
for the Metropolitan New Orleans Area, stands by. Looking on is John Cieutat, campaign chairman
for the New Orlenas March of Dimes drive. Paul was born with an incomplete right arm; Marty was
born without arms, and with a defective hip. Marty and Paul represent the quarter of a million
American children born each year with birth defects. The March of Dimes provides treatment and
research in the field of birth defects, and carried on a program of public education. (NC Pho + o)
Editor:
I suppose when you
devote so much attention to
Twin Circle, we almost have
to make some response.
You say Twin Circle is not
a newspaper and add that the
bishops who liked us as a
newspaper “ought to be
ashamed of their abysmal
ignorance in the field of
journalism.” Webster’s New
World dictionary defines a
newspaper only as “A
publication regularly printed
and distributed, usually daily
or weekly, containing news,
opinions, advertisements, and
other items of general
interest.” This fits Twin
Circle but then the men who
assembled this dictionary
were undoubtedly abysmally
ignorant, too.
While we do specialize in
viewpoints, I would be quite
willing to have us referred to
as a journal of opinion, a
designation that would fit
Our Sunday Visitor, the
National Catholic Reporter
and The Wanderer as well.
But then the bishops were
responding to a question
asked by the Catholic Press
Association and the Catholic
St. Pius X High School,
Savannah has announced its
Honor Roll for the first
semester. Honor students are:
SECOND HONORS:
Twelfth Grade: Agnes
Young, Monica Stewart.
Raymond Tindal.
Eleventh Grade: David
Scott, Jackie Cleveland,
Michael Boatwright, Cynthia
Blue.
Tenth Grade: Cornelia
Williams, Carol Fireall.
Ninth Grade: Ronald
Golden, Javenese Washington.
THIRD HONORS:
Twelfth Grade: Sarah
Press Association does
classify us as a newspaper.
How we are classified
really doesn’t bother us but
we do believe that an editor
who classifies 35 bishops as
abysmally ignorant takes
upon himself a rather harsh
judgment.
Our circulation, which is
more than 92,000 now, isn’t
really properly described as
“paltry,” when you consider
we have been in existence
only a little more than two
years and compare our
circulation with the national
edition of The Register, the
national edition of Our
Sunday Visitor or The
National Catholic Reporter
and the Wanderer.
As I am certain the editor
knows, it is foolish to
compare our circulation with
The New World of Chicago,
The Brooklyn Tablet or any
of the other archdiocesan
newspapers. It may well be
Savannah’s The Southern
Cross is the exception and if
the ordinary did not give it
strong support it would
continue to thrive but as you
must know most diocesan
aim arcmiiocesaa newspapers
depend very heavily on what
Wright, Gloria Grant, Howard
Duncan, Joan Williams,
Vidonia Boney, Donald
Thomas, Earl Miller, Patricia
Mincey.
Eleventh Grade Carl
Moody, Elmer Ware, Portia
Washington. Joseph Battiste,
Beny Hamilton, Sarah Black,
Gregory Stewart.
Tenth Grade: Janice
Alexander, Gary Ervin,
Johnson Carlton.
Ninth Grade: Kathleen
Grant, Christine Miller, Janice
Williams, Brenda Williams,
Debra Robertson, Deirdre
McClellen, Rodena West,
Leroy Miller.
can only be called forced
circulation. It happens I agree
that this should be done, a
diocesan newspaper is an
adjunct of the teaching of the
Church and all families
should receive it, but don’t
try to delude anyone by
suggesting that because The
New World, for example, has
some thousand more
subscription than we have
that this has any meaning.
You speak of our “very
expensive telephone and free
mailing campaign.” There is
no reason why we shouldn’t
reveal to you exactly what
this costs us since you seem
not acquainted with modern
methods of promotio. We use
what is called a WATS line,
this gives us 24 hour a day
service. Costs vary according
to zones but it averages out
to about $36 a day.
We located our callers in
the midwest, the central time
zone. This means they can
start calling at 7 a.m.,
continue until 7 p.m. We use
four callers three hours a day.
The calls cover 12 hours,
which brings the cost to $3
an hour. The caller easily
makes an average of 10 calls
an hour, which brings the
individual cost to 30 cents.
The organization that
handles promotion is paid a
fee for all subscriptions
secured. The organization
purchases sample copies from
us, still is able to do well
enough on commissions.
If the editor knows
anything about promotion
and circulation, he knows
that a cost of about a dollar
for each eight dollar
subscription is most
remarkable. Yet this is our
record.
Incidentally, the 92,000
copies that I noted as our
circulation is for full time
bundle or individual copy
subscriptions. The copies sold
to the sales organization are
not included in this figure at
all.
Twin Circle is obviously
not a favorite of the editor of
The Southern Cross. So be it.
But for the editor to lose
his cool so completely that he
rushes into judging bishops as
abysmally ignorant, accuses
us of bad faith , is perhaps not
totally responsible.
Y
Sincerely,
Dale Francis
Twin Circle
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