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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, June 22,1972
$30 MILLION INSTITUTE
Boys Town Will Operate
Speech, Hearing Program
SACRED HEART SCHOOL EIGHTH GRADE GRADUATES,
WARNER ROBINS — Pictured with the graduates are: Father
DiFrancesco, Pastor, Fathers James Fuemmeler and Leland
CHILDREN CHIEF VICTIMS
Mead, Robins Air Force Base Chaplains, who concelebrated
the Graduation Mass with the pastor; Mrs. Michael Fitzpatrick.
8th grade teacher, and Sr. M. Ignatius, Principal.
Famine Still Stalks World
BOYS TOWN, Neb. (IsfC) - Boys
Town has announced plans to add a $30
million institute for hearing and speech
disorders to its traditional program.
The Institute for the Study and
Treatment of Hearing and Speech
disorders in Children is designed to help
handicapped children whose families
could not afford expensive treatment.
Boys Town officials promised to
enlarge the institution’s programs early
this year after newspaper articles
criticized its operations and the
accumulation of large reserve funds.
The institute will consist of two
facilities. One, located on the Boys Town
Priests Down
Peace Motion
ATLANTA (NC) -- The Atlanta senate
of priests defeated a motion to
recommend “immediate and complete
withdrawal of American forces” from
Vietnam.
The resolution, which was defeated by
a 5-4 vote, called the war “immoral and
inhumane” and “encouraged leaders of
our nation to act not just out of concern
for United States security and honor, but
also for ... a reverence for human life.”
In expressing his opposition to the
resolution, Father Daniel O’Connor said
the statement was “simplistic” and “very
poorly written.”
In defense of the statement’s wording,
Father John Adamski, chairman of the
justice and peace committee, said every
word was borrowed from
pronouncements of American bishops.
campus, will have housing, care and
model school facilities for 50
communicatively handicapped children.
The second facility, located at
Creighton University in Omaha, will
house a comprehensive diagnostic center
for hearing and speech disorders.
Facilities for medical-surgical
rehabilitation and an outpatient clinic are
also planned,
Director of the institute will be Dr.
Patrick E. Brookhouser, Senior
consultant will be Dr. John E. Bordley.
Both Brookhouser and Bordley helped
design the institute and are recognized in
the field of communicative disorders.
Both hold positions at Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, Baltimore.
According to Dr. Robert P. Heaney,
vice president for Health Sciences at
Creighton, the Boys Town Institute
should become a nationally prominent
center for the total rehabilitation of
communicatively disabled children.
While other organizations have made
some advances in surgery or education for
these children, the institute is the first to
attempt an all-inclusive approach to
therapy, he said.
Prospective patients at the institute
will be picked on the basis of their
financial status, potential for
rehabilitation, and suitability of their
particular handicap in teaching and
research programs.
Archbishop Daniel Sheehan of Omaha,
president of the Boys Town board of
directors said that one out of every 20
American children has a communicative
handicap. Many of these children can be
helped, he said, but thousands are kept in
mental institutions because of a lack of
facilities.
ROME (NC) — The tragic fact of the
1970s is that there are more sick,
undernourished and uneducated children
in the world than there were at the
beginning of the 1960s, despite the
advances in agricultural and other
technologies.
Worse, with population growth
threatening to outstrip food production
in this decade, there may be as many
undernourished and malnourished people
in 1980 as there are today, according to
projections by the United Nations Food
and Agriculture Organization (FAO) after
a comprehensive study of world
agricultural commodity production,
demand and trade.
A decade ago, the best evidence
indicated that more than 10 percent of
the world’s population - between 300
and 500 million persons - were
undernourished and up to half suffered
from hunger or poor diets or both. Want
was greatest, of course, in the developing
countries.
From 1960 to 1970 a slight
improvement took place in the per capita
consumption in the developing countries,
but the percentage of persons affected by
undernourishment and malnutrition did
not diminish because inequalities in food
distribution did not diminish noticeably
over the decade.
In fact, since world population
increased during the decade by 680
million, while the average dietary level
improved only slightly, it is likely that
the number of undernourished people
actually increased and that nutritional
problems were therefore no less acute at
the end of the decade than at the
beginning.
By 1980, even if levels of income
projected are reached, they will not,
according to the FAO study, be high
enough in 42 countries to permit an
average calorie consumption that will
satisfy nutrional requirement for their
total population of 1.440 billion.
This is the world’s continuing famine,
and in the developing countries a myraid
of maladies depend more or less on this
race to feed well an always expanding
population.
Among the first to suffer from
inadequate supplies of food are the
children - each generation’s investment in
the future. And the children, along with
their mothers, are the numerically
dominant part of the population in the
developing regions of the world.
Every half minute, the developing
countries give birth to 100 children.
Within the year, 20 of them will die. Of
the 80 who survive, 60 will suffer from
malnutrition during the crucial weaning
and toddler age. The chance of their not
making it through this period is 20 to 40
times higher than if they had been born
in Europe or North America. But, even if
they made it, they face the horrifying
possibility that malnutrition has brought
them irreversible physical and mental
damage.
Of those lucky enough to live to school
age, slightly over half will get to a
classroom, and less than half of these will
complete the elementary grades.
If the nutritional needs are not met,
FAO warned, successive generations in
these regions will bear the dietary
deficiencies. Of the 800 million children
now growing up in the developing
countries, more than two-thirds will
encounter sickness or disabling diseases
either brought on or aggravated by
protein-calorie malnutrition. Already 300
million children suffer grossly retarded
physical growth and development, and
many of these have the added burden of
impaired mental development.
In the developed world, where women
normally consume liberal quantities of
high-quality protein - whether they are
pregnant or not - the need for extra
protein during pregnancy is largely of
academic interest. But in the developing
world, it is often one of the equations of
survival for both mother and child.
Already, in the womb, the lack of
protein in the expectant mother’s diet
slows down development of the brain,
according to FAO’s nutrition division
head, Dr. Marcel Autret.
From the beginning, the mother’s
nutrition marks the infant’s birth weight,
by the store of iron, Vitamin A and other
nutrients essential to early life.
The ability of poorly fed mothers to
breast feed their infants successfully for
prolonged periods is the one thing that
prevents protein-calorie malnutrition
from being an even more serious problem
than it is. Even so, malnutrition is the
biggest single contributor to child
mortality in the developing countries, the
FAO said.
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Pope’s
6 Secret’
Diaries
BY FATHER LEO E. McFADDEN
ROME (NC) -- A book purportedly
based on “secret diaries” of Pope Pius XII
is about as authentic as a Howard Hughes
biography, according to a Vatican
archivist.
The book, “Pius XII in the Presence of
History,” centers largely on the thoughts
of Pope Pius during the years of World
War II.
The author, Msgr. Georges Roche,
contends he based the book on secret
diaries of Pope Pius that are in the
custody of Sister Pasqualina Lenhert, the
late pontiff’s chief housekeeper.
One Vatican archivist who specializes
in the wartime activity of the Holy See,
told NC News that the book prompts the
same suspicion as the “Khrushchev book
or any one of the biographies on Howard
Hughes.”
The archivist suggested that Msgr.
Roche constructed his book in much the
same way that author Clifford Irving
fabricated the Hughes biography: the
public record.
Another observer of the Vatican scene,
Jesuit Father Angelo Martini, writing in
the Rome Jesuit publication Civilta
Cattolica, was more specific.
It is strange, Father Martini said, that
almost three-fourths of the book is based
on the time period already made public
by the Vatican.
Four Vatican scholars, among them
Father Martini, sifted through three tons
of documents and writings of Pope Pius
to produce between 1965 and 1969 the
voluminous “Acta (Journal) and
Documents of the Holy See relating to
the War.”
Father Martini further contends that
Msgr. Roche, in collaboration with
Philippe Saint Germain, “reaped
abundantly from the Acta without
attribution.”
Furthermore, Father Martini said, the
secret diaries have never been seen by any
rep^kable scholar, but if they did “they
would be a discovery of enormous
importance.”
The Vatican has flatly denied that the
diaries exist.
One Italian paper summed up the book
as the case of the misplaced quotes. It
said that Msgr. Roche put quotes around
the extracts of diaries which the Vatican
says never existed and forgot to put
quotes around the paragraphs found in
the Acta.
Msgr. Roche figured in the news in
May when a French weekly, Paris Match,
published the startling revelation that
Pope Pius XI was poisoned on orders of
the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
Paris Match reportedly based its story
on documents from the late Cardinal
Eugene Tisserant. Msgr. Roche, who had
been the cardinal’s secretary, is said to
have removed to Paris all the cardinal’s
files and documents.
Msgr. Roche, however, vigorously
denied any connection with the Parish
Match story.
Gov’t Hampers
Czech Church
VATICAN CITY (NC) - The facts of
the Catholic Church’s situation in
Czechoslovakia “speak for themselves
with silent and sad eloquence,” according
to an editorial comment carried in
L’Osservatore della Domenica, the
Vatican weekly magazine.
The editorial was written by Federico
Allessandrini, head of the Vatican Press
Office, a frequent contributor to the
Vatican weekly and a specialist in Church
affairs in Eastern Europe.
With the recent deaths of two aged
bishops in Czechoslovakia, there are only
three Catholic bishops remaining in the
country, Alessandrini said.
The editorial also noted that the
restrictions on nuns living in religious
communities have been tightened again
after being relaxed somewhat in 1968.
According to news reports the nuns have
been forced to break up their convents
and to declare they have done so
“voluntarily.”
Alessandrini reported that attacks on
the Vatican have been stepped up and
that the promises seen in the
comparatively liberal policies of so-called
New Spring of 1968 are rapidly
disappearing.
“Things are returning to the situation
that existed before then,” he wrote.