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Thursday, November 11,1971
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DEVELOPMENT CAMP AI CIS
Education Basic
To Anti-Poverty
Effort Of Church
By Joseph McLellan
WASHINGTON (NC) — Don’t be surprised if, one day a few months from now,
your kids come home from school and - instead of reading, writing and arithmetic -
start talking about the problems of Chicanos, urban bla^k families, migrant workers,
old people on small fixed incomes and workers who receive only the minimum wage..
Like the day-care center in the next town and the job-training program or food
cooperative in the next county, your children will be beneficiaries of the campaign
for Human Development, the U.S. Catholic bishops’ anti-poverty program which
amassed over $8.5 million in a nationwide collection last November 22 and hopes to
do even better this Nov. 21.
While it is giving hope and
opportunities to poor people,
the campaign is giving
something equally
needed--information- to
ordinary, non-poor citizens.
Most of the campaign’s
r e v en ues--about 85
percent--are going directly
into programs of assistance to
the poor. But a national
education and information
program is a key part of the
campaign’s objectives and the
program has swung into high
gear-not only in the schools
but in films, recorded spot
announcements for radio and
television, and articles in
newspapers and magazines
(including the one you are
now reading).
Why talk about poverty
when action is obviously
what is needed? Because the
average American today
understands poverty no
better than his great-great
grandfather understood
smallpox. And you can’t
really eliminate a problem
until you understand it-not
merely the experts (who are
still learning and hive a lot
more to learn) but the
average citizens whose
knowledge and attitudes, in
the long run, will do the most
to determine how the United
States tackles its poverty
problem.
The school programs
devised by the Campaign take
the form of 10 “modules”
which are being supplied to
the schools. Basically, the
modules are not traditional
textbooks but more like a
discussion and action guide
for teachers. In the primary
grades, the modules will lead
the students through a study
of the different kinds of
p eople who are poor: the
Spanish-speaking, Indians,
blacks, old people and white
people.
Some schools may try a
program that has already had
devastating effects in a few
places-a discrimination week.
Details on this can vary, but
the effect is to have
discrimination experienced
by groups which are not
usually victims of
discrimination.
Blue-eyed students may be
required to eat in a special
section of the school
cafeteria-crowded and not
cleaned as often or served as
well as the rest of the
cafeteria. Boys whose names
begin with the letters A to N
may be required to climb
three flights of stairs for
“their” men’s room, or
forbidden to drink from the
bubbler that is used by
everyone else. Doctors’ and
lawyers’ children may be
required to do all the cleaning
in classrooms and cafeterias.
Or any artificial “minority”
group may be exposed to the
crudest discrimination of all:
non-communication-a week
in which nobody will have a
friendly chat with them.
There are a good many
ways people can learn about a
problem as large and
pervasive as poverty, and
virtually all can be explored
within the framework of the
Campaign for Human
Development.
Clearly, one of the lessons
that will emerge from this
study is that poor people are
not the only ones who need
“development.”
JESUS ON WATCH FACE
Mickey Mouse, Move Over—
It’s Finally Happened
CHICAGO, Ill. (NC) - A
Jesus wrist watch, featuring a
smiling Jesus in your choice
of black face or white, is
about to get a heavy
promotion in the nation’s
youth market, according to a
columnist here.
Chicago Daily News
columnist Mike Royko said
the newly formed Jesus
Watch Co. of Los Angeles has
budgeted $250,000 to
promote the $19.95 watch in
college newspapers, on rock
radio stations and in the
underground press. The ads
are aimed especially at the
“movement” among young.
A sample ad reads: “Be
with Jesus every minute of
the day.
“Wear the watch on your
hand of the man who stilled
the water. Only $19.95.
“Order the race of your
choice.”
Los Angeles public
relations man Arnold Carr, a
partner in the new watch
company, told Royko that he
sees nothing offensive in the
manufacture of the Jesus
watch.
“The watch is tasteful,”
the publicist said. “The
integrity of Jesus is retained.
We haven’t made a pop head
out of him. All we’ve done is
given him a smile. We’ve
taken him out of the church
and off the cross and put him
on a watch.”
Coincidentally, a few
weeks before Royko told
about the new commercial
venture, the Catholic News in
New York remarked in an
editorial that the highly
successful rock musical
“Jesus Christ Superstar”
would mean product
exploitation built around
Jesus.
The New York
archdiocesan weekly
newspaper said that “people
who would use the life of
Jesus for profit and gain” are
open to criticism -- and
speculated that eventually
someone might come out
with a Jesus watch.
WTOC Programs
WTOC-TV, Channel 11 in Savannah will present a
special half-hour program illustrating the Campaign
For Human Development (CHD) at 4:30 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 14. The CHD is a nation-wide effort of
the Catholic Church in the United States to help the
nation’s poor help themselves through co-operative
programs and to educate the non-poor to the needs of
their poverty stricken neighbors.
WTOC Radio, 1290 KC, will present three special
programs featuring Father John Kenneally, author of
“Rapping With The Reverend,” at 11 a.m. on the
next three Sundays in November, the 14th, 21st and
28th. The broadcasts will be devoted to open
discussions by young people voicing their views of the
church and the world today.
ONE WAY TO “CONDUCT’ A MISSION DRIVE - Monsignor Joseph Wiest,
right, 77-year-old retired pastor in the Brooklyn Diocese, has built quite a
reputation for himself with his singing. The diocesan Society for the Propagation
of the Faith recently asked him to cut a record album of some old-time songs as a
fund-raising project. He agreed, and for the cover of the album - titled “A Priest
with a Song in His Heart - Monsignor Wiest and some priests who provide the
choral background visited a trolley museum for a photo session. (Catholic Press
Features)
HEADLINE
HOPSCOTCH ■ t
$49,606 IN GRANTS
Development Campaign
Savannah Priests’ Senate
The Priests’ Senate of the Savannah Diocese will meet
November 24th at 10 AM. at St. Matthew’s rectory, Statesboro,
Deadline for items to be put on the agenda is Nov. 17. Proposals
must be co-signed by at least three priests.
President’s Daughter At CU
WASHINGTON (NC) — President Nixon’s elder daughter is
winding up the course work required for a master’s degree in
elementary education at Catholic University of America here.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower resumed studies at CU when her
husband, Ensign David Eisenhower, left recently for a
three-week cruise. Mrs. Eisenhower is studying “Introduction to
educational research,” a three-credit course which will complete
requirements for the education degree.
CRS Aids Cyclone Victims
NEW YORK (NC) - Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the
overseas aid agency of U.S Catholics, has airlifted by charter jet
37 tons of supplies worth $245,000 to aid victims of a cyclone
and tidal wave in India’s Bay of Bengal area. Some of the
supplies are to be used in the CRS relief program for East
Pakistani refugees in India. Reports from the cyclone-struck
area indicate that from 5,000 to 20,000 lives may have been lost
in the storm,
'Rescue Thanksgiving Day’
WORCESTER, Mass. (NC) — Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan has
called on Catholics to rescue Thanksgiving Day from “secular
and mundane observances.” Noting that Thanksgiving originated
as a day to gather together and acknowledge God’s goodness,
Worcester’s bishop asked that Catholics gather in church on
Thanksgiving day to celebrate the Eucharist. Eucharist, he
noted, actually means “thanksgiving.” The bishop, who is
national clergy consultant for the 200,000-member Catholic
Daughters of America, made his observations in a message
published in the Thanksgiving issue of that organization’s
national magazine. Share.
Mindszenty Pleads For Crown
WASHINGTON (NC) — Cardinal Jozef Mindszenty
reportedly has written a letter to President Nixon asking that
neither St. Stephen’s crown nor cloak - symbols of Hungarian
sovereignty - be released to Hungary’s Communist rulers.
Although the White House did not confirm receipt of the letter,
a source told NC News that it was sent to the President in care
of Frank Shakespeare, director of the United States Information
Agency. Shakespeare was not available for comment. The source
claimed that Cardinal Mindszenty’s letter not only cautioned
the President against transferring the crown from a U.S. hiding
place to the Communists, but condemned Janos Kadar, head of
Hungary’s Communist regime, and requested that the United
States give money to certain members of Hungarian nobility.
Funds Ga. Projects
A report was made last
week on four projects funded
by the Human Development
Campaign of 1970.
Waynesboro received $1,000
for seed money for a Day
Care Center. The center for
30 children is now in
operation, staffed by the
Chancellors of the Province
of Atlanta will meet
November 16th at Savannah
Beach for two days of
discussions on varied topics.
The meeting, to be
headquartered at the Ramada
Inn, will begin at 8:45 a.m.
with a panal discussion of the
Chancery and Finances,
chaired by Father J. Kevin
Boland, Savannah Chancellor.
At 11:15 a.m., Father
Francis Miller, Chancellor of
the diocese of Charleston will
lead discussion on the
Chancery and Dispensations.
The afternoon session,
opening at 2 p.m. will hear
reports on Stewardship and
Fiscal Management. Chairman
for this session will be Father
Louis Morton, Chancellor of
the Raleigh Diocese.
Sessions on Thursday, Nov.
18 will begin at 8:45 with
discussion of the Chancery
and Personnel. The
chancellors will examine
Glenmary Sisters and
volunteer workers.
McRae received $606 to
help begin a credit union for
low income people in Telfair
County. The credit union
now has over 200 members
hospital and retirement
policies as they regard lay
personnel, clergy
hospitalization and
retirement, and clergy
salaries. Leading the
discussions will be Father
Jerry Hardy, Atlanta
Vice-chancellor.
The final session at 2 p.m.
will consider a wide range of
subject matter including
diocesan archives, cemetery
procedures, diocesan fund
raising drives, budgets and
bookkeeping systems.
and is being operated by a
community, ecumenical
board.
Claxton received $1,500
for a free clinic. The clinic
attracted professional
volunteers into the area who
are now helping in various
social service programs.
These three rural projects
were assisted by the 25%
which the diocese was
allowed to keep from the
local collection totals. A
grant from the national
office, amounting to $20,000
was given to Albany, Georgia,
for education projects and
self-help projects.
$26,500 was also alloted to
three parishes in north
Georgia mostly in the
mountain areas. One of these,
in Dahlonega, has a training
program in crafts for
community economic
stability.
Actually, the National
Human Development
Campaign gave Georgia last
year more in these grants
than Georgia Catholics gave
in the 1970 collection. Other
Georgia self help projects that
were not funded last year are
already being considered for
this year.
SAVANNAH BEACH
Chancellors
Set Meeting