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PAGE 7—The Southern Cross, February 1,1973
Readers Reply
Editor:
With reference to the letters recently
concerning the “hash” at Pacelli High
School, I hope, by this time, someone
has reminded all concerned that when
Christ, Our Lord, gave his commission
to the Apostles, he said, “Go forth and
teach all nations” regardless of race,
creed or color “whatsoever I have
commanded you.” Go on faith, without
staff or worry over where or how you
will eat or sleep “and behold, I am with
you all days, even to the consummation
of the world.”
Apparently, that portion of scripture
has never been brought to the attention
of hierarchy or laity in the Diocese of
Savannah.
Sylvia M. Barry
Augusta
Editor:
Peace and joy in the Spirit of God!
Thank you so much for your kind
co-operation in publishing the copy I
sent concerning the Scripture workshop
given here January 19-21st.
Thirty sisters attended the workshop
and everyone seemed to have a
profitable experience. Although we had
room for about forty-five sisters, we
view two-thirds of that number to be a
remarkable turn-out, considering the
unfortunate fact that we necessarily
began publicity very late.
The credit for the effectiveness of the
publicity we did belongs in no small
part to you who so promptly published
our copy.
We are looking forward to
co-operating with you again in
publicizing programs of interest to the
people of the diocese of Savannah.
May the Spirit of Truth ever guide
you in your apostolate of
communication.
In the love of the Trinity,
Sr. Suzanne Golden, M.S.B.T.
Holy Trinity, Ala.
Editor:
As an active member of the Council
of Catholic Women, I wish to have it
noted that the statement released to the
Savannah newspaper stating that the
CCW is against Amendment no. 27,
“The Equal Rights Amendment,” is not
entirely accurate.
The vote was taken at the Deanery
meeting on Sunday, January 21st, and it
ws not announced in advance that this
was to be on the agenda.
I know I speak for several besides
myself (in my parish alone) when I say,
had I known about this vote, I certainly
would have revised my Sunday schedule
so that I could have been there to cast a
vote in favor of the amendment.
I don’t have any objection to the way
the vote went, as we are all free to make
our own decisions, but I DO object to
the statement made on behalf of the
Catholic women without first polling
each parish or at least announcing that a
vote would be taken at this meeting.
I had sent letters to the proper
elected officials stating that as a wife,
mother, and working woman, I strongly
urge support of this amendment. It
really never occurred to me that religion
would enter into it, or I would have
said.. .as a wife, mother, working
woman, and Catholic, I urge . . .ect.
Deborah G. Scarberry
Savannah
Editor:
Volunteer for a charity fund for the
Missionaries of Our Lady of the Prairies
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for larger school, addition to retirement
home, dorm and Convent.
We ask your help, Request Betty
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Also Gold Bond, S&H for other items
needed.
All faiths welcome to help and all
help greatly appreciated with
remembrance in the prayers of many
children, old folks, Sisters, Brothers,
and priests.
Will pay postage. Thanks and may
God reward you.
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Box 1423
Williston, No. Dak. 58801
“FROM THE PICTURE PRESS” is the name of a
new book published Jan. 30 by the Museum of
Modem Art. This is one of the photos from the work,
edited by John Szarkowski, director of the museum’s
Department of Photography. Accident victim Mrs.
Laura McCrary of New York clutches her Rosary as
she tells Patrolman Francis Lane not to worry about
her while she waits for medical help to arrive. Gary
Kagan took the picture for the New York Daily News.
(NC Photo courtesy Museum of Modern Art)
POPE ASKS AID FOR VIETNAMESE - Pope Paul
belsses the crowd in St. Peter’s Square from his
Vatican apartment. Speaking on the day following the
Vietnam cease-fire, the Roman Catholic pontiff called
upon all men of goodwill to turn their attentions to
the need for aid for those men, women and children
who suffered under a quarter of a century of
continuous war. He asked for prayers that there will be
“no more arms, no more disputes” in Vietnam, and
said that “we must strengthen in ourselves the
conviction of the disastrous irrationality of war and we
must want a world which is more stable and more
human.” (Religious News Service Photo)
Suppose the Bank Computer Erred
NEW YORK (CPF) - What would
you do if your bank accidentally
credited your account with an extra
$100,000?
A syndicated newspaper columnist
named Mike McGrady told his readers
that it happened to him and he wanted
their advice.
“Honesty blossoms across our land,”
he reported several weeks after stating
his dilemma. “Morality is
rampant...Diogenes would need no
lantern were he to carry his quest
through this society.”
Mr. McGrady noted that his question,
at the time, had drawn 632 letters of
response.
“Five hundred and ninety-four of
these letters are of a single mind—we
should call the bank immediately,
notify them of the error and forever
after sleep well at night.”
He added that of the 594
“exhortations to honesty,” 450
mentioned Christ, more than 400 cited
the Golden Rule and more than 300
said that honesty is the best policy.
He quoted a number of the responses
he received, including one from a
Sunday School class in Fort Wayne,
Indiana, which said:
“No one person in our group thought
that attempting in any way to keep the
money was the right, honorable, shrewd
or sensible thing to do.”
One woman, shocked that he was
even considering any other action but
notifying the bank immediately,
reprimanded him with;
“Do the right thing - fall to your
knees as fast as possible and ask Jesus
Christ to forgive you.”
Mr. McGrady found that reader
suggestions and reactions varied
according to what parts of the country
they were from.
“Judging by the main, morality is
strongest in the Deep South and in the
Midwest,” he wrote. “Letter writers
from northern climes displayed less
certainty, a kind of modified
Christianity.
“One said the money should be taken
to a remote island: ‘There I would talk
with God and find out how He would
like for me to use it.’ ”
Another letter writer suggested he
would keep the money, but would first
deduct 10 per cent and donate it to his
church.
“Interestingly enough, many of the
most persuasive advocates of honesty
described vivid tales of their own
poverty—hunger, outsized rats and
cockroaches, unheated apartments,
chronic unemployment and so forth,”
he wrote.
“Letters indicating a measure of
prosperity—some typed electrically by
secretaries, some penned on expensive
stationery—proposed less honorable
solutions,” Mr. McGrady observed.
A number of the correspondents
reported that they had had a similar
experience, with bank computers
suddenly going haywire and adding an
extra hundred thousand or an extra
million to checking or saving accounts.
“One said he reported the error, but
regrets it now that he is old, retired, and
poor.
Nevertheless, Mr. McGrady was no
longer tempted.
“Yesterday I received a call from an
official of Security National Bank. ‘We
hope you haven’t spent the $100,000,’
he began.”
What World Needs Is More People
ROME (NC) - What the world needs
- according to one of the foremost
experts on its needs - is more people.
Colin Clark has brought this
unorthodox message to Rome, now the
very holy city of the crusade for
population limitation.
Rome is headquaaters of the United
Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO), which says people
must stop reproducing so fast and
titular see of the Club of Rome, a group
of eminent thinkers whose statistical
study, “The Limits to Growth,”
forecast a famine of food and a glut of
garbage unless the world disciplines its
propensity to produce people.
“I regret to say in this city of FAO,”
the mild-mannered, British-born
economist said, “that FAO has given the
world a great deal of misinformation.”
He was speaking to a meeting of
about 200 university students and •
economists, including FAO officials.
“It goes back to 1950, when (FAO
director general) Lord Boyd-Orr
announced that two-thirds of the world
was hungry. He had confused two
columns of figures.
“FAO later said half the world was
malnourished. I asked them for
evidence, and they said they would
supply that later.”
Clark said FAO asked him for one of
his best men at Oxford University’s
Agricultural Economics Institute, of
which he was director from 1953 to
1959, to prove its previous statement
that half the world did not have enough
of the right food.
“The most interesting statement from
FAO was made by its chief economist
(Walter) Pawley in 1971. He said that
statements made by FAO had been
much too easy for people like Colin
Clark to criticize.”
Clark’s credentials as a critic and as a
constructive economist are formidable
by almost any standard. A chemist by
training and an economist by passion,
Clark was seconded to John Maynard
Keynes in the 1930s, when the
immensely influential British economist
was doing his work on
underemployment and government
expenditure.
Clark himself invented the economic
concept of Gross National Product,
which has proven a useful statistical tool
and is one of the economic concepts
best known to non-economists. He has
been consultor to FAO -- for a while --
and to the Indian and Japanese
governments.
Of the Club of Rome’s study, “The
Limits to Growth,” Clark told his
audience:
“I think you must regret the insult to
your city by the publication of such
extremely erroneous information.”
He said the scholars of the Club of
Rome group stated that each person
needs about an acre of agricultural land
to survive.
Clark maintained that half that land
provides “the richest kind of American
or Western European diet.” He said the
club of Rome failed to note that a large
part of the world’s arable land is capable
of producing more than one crop and
that pasture land also produces food.
He reported that one member of the
Club of Rome, Japan’s Saburo Okita,
told him that the club’s report must be
rewritten.
Clark also criticized the Club of
Rome’s study for “treating pollution as
incurable.”
He said reliable American government
statistics indicated that pollution can be
cured at a cost of one percent of the
national product.
“That’s cheap, but we don’t want to
pay the cost. We find it easier to go to
meetings about pollution than pay taxes
for sewage treatment.”
Clark observed that individual
manufacturers are reluctant to go broke
on pollution control while their
competitors shirk that cost. He said
pollution control is a responsibility of
local governments -- “not of national
governments and still less of world
governments.”
Another target for Clark’s criticism
was British writer Barbara Ward’s book
“The Angry 70’s.”
Clark described it as “a mass of
errors,” and cited Barbara Ward’s
assertion that food production in
developing countries is falling behind
population growth.
Contradicting Miss Ward, Clark said
that food production is growing
“substantially faster” than population.
He referred his audience to a
publication of the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) called “National
Accounts of Less Developed Countries.”
Clark said figures in that publication
show that countries with higher rates of
population growth have higher
per-capita rates of growth of
productivity.
The 68-year-old economist, who now
teaches at Monash University in
Victoria, Australia, gave short shrift to
notions that the world’s resources are
being exhausted.
First, he observed that the word
“resources” is widely misused in this
context, and should refer not only to
minerals and metals (which are
depletable but wholly recyclable) but to
“the principal resource,” which is
human labor and human intelligence.
As for the possibility that the world’s
available space will eventually become
overcrowded by sheer population, Clark
predicted that the world’s population
will continue to grow for the next
century and a half but will stabilize
then. The biggest populations will be in
Africa, Asia and South America, he said.
“The factors which control
population growth are sociological not
economic,” he asserted.
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