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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1963 PAGE 5 GEORGIA PINES Pity Poor Proof BY FATHER R. DONALD KIERNAN The late Dick Reid, an early pioneer in the field of Catholic Journalism, is probably remembered for his apologetics of our faith. However, Mr. Reid on many occasions would write in a humo rous vein and his defense of the “poor proof reader’* published years ago was undoubtedly his most humorous story. Newspapers are born, live and die today. There is nothing as old as yesterday’s paper. Speed is as necessary to keep a newspaper going as to keep a plane in the air. There are thirty six letters to a line, ten lines to an inch, and 168 inches to a solid page of type. There are in such a page 60,4 80 chances for error. Multiply this by the number of pages in the average issue of your favorite paper, making allowances for headlines, ad vertisements, cartoons and pictures, and you will find that the opportunities for error af forded the newspaper staff from galley boy to chief editorial writer quickly mount into the mil lions. NOT ERROR but the lack of them should excite the wonder of those of us who cannot write or type a letter without starting it with the wrong date and then proceeding to prove that “well begun is half done*’. Since newspapers do not completely ignore the opportunities of error, those connected with them see the silver lining in the humor that frequently creeps Into these mistakes. In his article Editor Reid pointed out that there are numerous illus trations of the difference one letter may make such as the man by the name of Frank Clark who was astonished to read in the local bugle that he was Krank Clark; and the member of an "old local family” who was elected to office suddenly realized that his ancestory dated from an “odd local family”. THE MOST humorous though was the chairman of the judges at a flower show who decided to wear Reader one of the prize winning goregous red roses in his lapel. The following morning he casually glanced through the paper to see what it might say about his participation in the program. This is what he read; “As Mr. Smith mounted the stage, all eyes were fixed on the large red nose he displayed. Only years of patient cultivation could have pro duced an object of such brilliance.” If a single letter can work such haovc, a dropped or added letter can do much worse. One paper announcing the coming of Lent and it’s fasting and praying stated that: “Catholics feast and prav during Lent”. Then there was the editor who found out that his lead story which dealt with the local clergymen who united to protest lawlessness came of the press with the headline reading: “Local Clergy men Unite to Protect Lawlessness”. IN HIS article Mr. Reid pointed out the many snares which lie in wait to embarrass the newspa permen. Often when writing captions under pic tures presents a difficulty too, such as the man who drove his car off a bridge into a river. The same edition carried a story of the account of a funeral of a prominent and wealthy man in the community. The captions were misplaced and our sedate funeral rites were described by a picture of the last hilarious experience of our inebrieat- ed friend. If there are readers under the impression that newspapers never make mistakes, they should know better now. Trifling and patent errors in the newspapers are best ignored: when newspaper men are the victims they “grin and bear it”. The public is not always so indulgent. Mr. Reid concluded with an illustration of the account of a marriage in which the flowers described relat ed that “the roses were punk”. An apology and correction demanded; the apology came, followed by the attempted correction: “We should have said the noses were pink”. It woiild have been better to leave well enough alone. So friends, read this page with the knowledge that there is a possibility of 60,480 errors on this page alone. QUESTION BOX Newspapers And News BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY Q. HOW CAN NEWSPAPERS BE JUSTIFIED IN PRINTING THEIR “NEWS”? 1 MEAN, AREN’T THEY GUILTY OF DETRACTION BY REVEAL ING HIDDEN FAULTS OF OTHERS? IF THEY ARENT GUILTY THEN WHY ARE WE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PEOPLE DOING THINGS, ETC? OR, ARE WE GUILTY? IN OTHER WORDS, ARE EDITORS AND JOUR NALISTS SINNING AGAINST THE 8th COMMAND MENT WHEN THEY PRINT THAT SO-AND-SO STOLE THIS, AND SOMEONE ELSE IS GETTING A DIVORCE, ETC.? WHERE IS THE LINE DRAWN BETWEEN “NEWS” AND DETRACTION? A. The newspaper also has grave obligations to ward its advertisers, as well as to those to whom the ads are presented. Adver tising as a profession is given to superlatives, which readers from custom know how to dis count. So they may be allowed a bit of license as to style, but not to the point of dishonest representation. The newspaper has great obligations to the community it serves. It must serve the public interest and respect private rights. It must use honest methods in its search for news, respect rights to privacy and secrecy, and be careful never to defame anyone unjustily. Those are some basic general principles of newspaper morality. The complete development of them would require long, competent study; and would result in a book. In summary, none of the rules of justice, honesty, or charity are relaxed for the benefit of the newspaper reporter or editor. Certainly "scandal sheets,” sensation - mon- gering tabloids, and muck-raking gazettes smash the 8th Commandment to bits: they bear false witness, ruin reputations, slant facts, show no re gard for personal rights, and often little concern for public interest. They seek only circulation, which means advertising and income. And they are experts at avoiding libel. For the good honest newspaper the question usually proposed by the 8th Commandment is: Are facts in the public domain, at least in prin ciple? Anything in the public records, like an ac tion for divorce, or a marriage license, can be publicized without injustice. The same is true of crimes which are by nature public. Often it is better that the ulcers of society be truthfully re ported than that the news of them spread by un reliable gossip, which makes them grow into cancers. About public matters of this kind you and I are permitted to talk, without violence to the 8th Commandment, if we are sure that we are saying the truth; and if we tell it without malice. Most gossips enjoy their juicy stories so much that they tend to exaggerate, distort, and add their own condemning comments. If newspapers do the same they are as guilty as we - and on a much larger scale. LITURGICAL WEEK Picture Cycle Of Worship Continued From Page 4 Founders with praise for dedicated and self-sac rificing men. American Catholics find its texts also singu larly appropriate for the national celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. “Let us now praise men of renown...” begins the moving First Read ing from Ecclesiasticus. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 13, MASS AS ON SUNDAY. Christian realism, as we saw on Sunday, takes into account other things besides our joy and our gratitude to God. Christ is our salvation, yet our need and our distress remain. Forgiveness, victory over death, eternal life—this is God’s free gift. Yet sin and fear and mortality remain. And it is in the con text of the whole human situation, comprising these latter things as well as faith, that we must w ork (First Reading and Gospel) to make Christ's victory our own. THURSDAY, FEB. 14, MASS AS ON SUNDAY. Is the Church teaching, then, that our effort earns the prize, as a modern m ight conclude from today’ s First Reading? No, the lesson tells us only that discipleship embraces the whole person, that no one inserts himself into the Mystery of Jesus Christ so as to share His death and resurrection by a merely mental exercise and acceptance. Our response to the gift, the Liturgy teaches, must be total. FRIDAY, FEB. 15, MASS AS ON SUNDAY. The realization that we are called by God, called to grace, to health and life, is like the Gospel’s invitation to work. It doesn’t matter when the realization comes. What does matter is that we respond to it with heart and strength as well as with mind and soul. Our “work” is not a barter with God, a trading with him of so many good deeds in exchange for so much grace. It is ra ther a free and total following of the given Sa viour. SATURDAY, FEB. 16, ST. MARY ON SAT L'RDAY. Mary as the sign of the Church is again the dominant note of today’s Mass. Israel is a figure of her in the First Reading. And the Gospel teaches her as prototype of the faithful, of those "who hear the Word of God and keep it.” Peerless mother she is (Entrance, Gradual, Offertory and Communion hymns) as the Church is mother, visibly human as the Church is visibly human, instrument of the Almighty as the Church is. Saints in Black and White ST. FRANCIS XAVIER TOWARDS TUITION ACROSS 1. Circle of Light 5. Forcci into Place 9. Array 14. Cruising 15. Passage Out 16. Earthly; Abbrv. 18. Units of Weight 19. A Glazier 21. Tide 22. Country S. W. Europe 24. Watery Fluid 25. Female Name 26. Do Wrong 28. Aged, Lat; Abbrv. 29. Tuft of Feathers 30. Mother; Colloq. 33. South American Dance 35. Summits 36. Hezokiah's Mother; possessive 38. Digit 39. Sharp Point 40. Court of Appeal 41. Size of Shot 42. Biddy 43. Over 47. Decorous 49. Eleanora ... , Italian Actress 50. Foreshadow 51. Exist 52. The Knee 53. Entertains 54. Goddess of Marriage; Roman Myth 57. Obtained from Milk 59. Trial 60. River, Paraguay 61. Discharge 62. Shaver; colloq. 64. Square End Boat 66. Charity 68. Drinking Utensil 73. Glacial Ridge 74. Raging 76. Sensible 77. A Desert in Israel 79. St. Philip . . . 80 A Fabric 81. Dare 82. To Endure; Archaic 83. Chemical Compound DOWN 1. Homburgs 2. Wet 3. .. . Horne 4. Fertile Spot 5. Soak 6. Central Lino 7. Expense Allowance 8. Combining Form Meaning Solid 9. Old Testament; Abbrv. 10. "In Medias .... 11. Plod 12. Boners 13. Repent 17. Chairs 20. Habit 23. Young Insect 27. Trim 79. Unit of Work; Physics 30. God of War, Roman 31. Reed 32. Atom 34. Negative 35. Stick 37. Little Black .... 39. He founded .... Order 42. Leigh . ..., English Poet 43. Encourage 44. Haul 45. Canticles, Scripture 46. Plague 48. Article, French 49. His Feast Day is in 52. Wreath 54. He is the Apostle of .... 55. Unaccustomed 56. Period of Immaturity 57. Mendacious Person 58. Sleeping Place 63. Banter 65. Unclean; Jewish Law 67. Male Progenitor 69. Intimidates 70. Dray 71. Goad 72. Equal 75. Gaming Cube 78. With ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE ON PAGE 7 Government Can’t Give Tax Credits To Parents WASHINGTON -<NC)— Xhe secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Wel fare said here that a system of income tax credits for par ents of children in private schools would not be feasible. Anthony J. Celebrezze told the House Committee on Edu cation and Labor that “our basic analysis is that it ( a program of tax credits) doesn’t help the lower economic groups.” CELEBREZZE made this re ply in a question-and-answer period that followed prepared testimony to the committee (Feb. 4). The testimony out lined President Kennedy's Fed eral aid to education bill. The HEW secretary made no explicit reference in his pre pared statement to the fact that the administration bill rules out aid to parochial and other private schools for construct ion purposes and teachers’ sal aries. THREE representatives ex pressed disappointment at this in questioning Celebrezze. Rep. William Ayres of Ohio asked the question about in come tax credits for parents of private school children. Celebrezze said that such a plan would be like giving tax credits to a person who uses a toll road instead of a free highway or one who uses his private swimming pool instead of a public one. ON THE over-all question of aid for private schools, Cele brezze asked Rep. Ayres; “Where do you draw the line?” Reps. Roman Pucinski of Illi nois and Hugh Carey of New York also deplored the lack of aid for private school pupils. ARNOLD VIEWING Two Movies-Same Angles Rep. Carey said: “You can’t ignore this problem. It sits athwart the road we must tra vel. What this does is arrange Newman Meeting The Southeastern Province of the National Newmann Federat ion will hold its 1963 Convention in Tallahassee, Florida, this week-end. Hosts are Florida State University and Florida A & M. Convention Chairman is Chuch Cutajar. Delegates from the Atlanta Archdiocese will be attending the Convention with their chap lains. The theme of the Con vention will be “The Council and the Campus. It is based on the importance and influence of the Ecumenical Council on the student, especially those attending secular colleges. for the dissolution of one sect or of education” (private and parochial schools). Carey also disputed the HEW contention that aid to private, church related schools is for bidden by the Federal constitu tion. He stated that such u limitation is written into some state constitutions but not into the Federal constitution. QiCantoit HOTEL AMERICANA T.V. SERVICE CALLS $3.00 DAY-NIGHT-SUNDAY 875—6080 Res. TR5-2840 804 N. Highland Ave. Atlanta, Ga. • FREE PARKING • TV A AIR CONDITION I NO • FAMOUS MIAMI BUPPBT • ICE A BEVERAGE STATIONS • COPPER MAKER, BACH BOOM LUCKIE AT CONE ST. A Good Address in Atlanta God Love You MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN I have seen poverty, holiness and martyrdom at the Council—such were our previous articles. This one is en titled: “I Saw a New World at the Council.” Consider three very important Councils of the Church, and you will see how theworldhas shifted. At the Council of Nicea in 325, there were 318 bishops present; only six were from Europe. In other words, the Near East, the Eastern world or the Orientals dominated. At the Council of Trent (1545-1563) there were only 15 Orien tals; the Council was predominantly Latin or European. By this time the Church had also lost the major portion of the Anglo-Saxon and Nordic worlds. The Council of the Vatican in 1870 was practically all European—there was not a single bishop from Africa or Asia. BY JAMES W. ARNOLD "Phaedra” and "Divorce Italian Style” are non- Hollywood films with several things in common: Legion of Decency frowns, a place on most criti cal “ten best” lists, and a concern with sexual love. But in style and point of view they are as similar as Winnepeg and Miami Beach. In “Phaedra”, the direc tor-actress team of Jules Das sin and Melina Mercouri (“Never on Sunday”) attempt a modern version of the clas sic tragedy (Euripides, Senca, Racine) about the queen whose passion for her stepson de stroys everyone within fallout range. Pro, con, or neutral, these seem the most vital points about it: (1) There is a weakening of the traditional characters and conflicts. The classic Phaedra is a noble, spirited woman struggling against an un natural lust, at least partially forced on her by vengeful deities; at times she also believes her husband dead. Both men react with horror; worse, they fail to see how hard she is fighting and how desperately she wants purity. Abuse and jealousy drive her to ruin; the father is misinformed about the guilt of his son, and they, too, move inevitably to unhappy fates. Writer-producer-director Dassin boils all this complexity down to a familiar, if offbeat, domes tic triangle. Attractive wife meets stepson and the soundtrack churns withpseudo-Tschaikowsky; the only problem is what-do-we-do-now. When she won’t leave her husband, the boy cools off, sulks, seeks other amusements. To prevent his arranged marriage with a young girl, Phaedra confesses; the husband beats and banishes the boy, and all ends in gloom and death. Wrecked in the process is the beauty and stature of both wife and son: she flawed only by her desire, he by perhaps something worse, a cold purity that shuts out human pity and understand ing. The traditional Phaedra is overcome with shame for an unfulfilled desire; in the movie, having carried the desire into act, she is unre pentant: “Only one thing could be more terrible than we have done - to leave each other.” Love of wife-for-husband and son-for-father varies ac cording to geography: the tragic disagreement seems to be over whether the loving should be carried on in Paris or Greece. (2) While there is much sympathy for the lov ers, there is little for the sin: as always, it brings tragedy to the principals, their family and nearly all of Greece. The love scenes are so indirect as to be almost ludicrous: the major se duction is a gushy blur of fire, water and pound ing guitars. (3) As the stepson only Van Johnson could be more wrong than coy, Ivy Leaguish Tony Perkins, who alternately tenses his face muscles or half smiles like Johnny Carson; he underplays while everyone else is screaming and writhing in deep tragedy. Raf Vallone as the husband swallows everything but the camera. Miss Mercouri’s two expressions are satisfactory, at least for this Phaedra. (4) As usual, Dassin contributes endlessly excit ing black-and-white visuals, as well as the feeling and some ingenious parallels to the forms and de vices of Greek drama. Bu t fidelity to the Greek mood often conflicts with the skimpiness of the modem characters. Sample: Perkins driving his sports car to oblivion, singing wild-eyed as the car radio (doubtless FM) throbs with Bach organ music. It often seems as if Leonard Bernstein were working the philharmonic into a frenzy in support of Peter, Paul and Mary. Pietro Germi’s “Divorce Italian Style” is a gay, nihilistic hoot at what Dassin’s “Phaedra” takes so seriously: the passions and discomforts of un lawful love. More exactly, “Divorce” mocks anything anybody takes seriously, starting with Italian laws against divorce and moving on in discriminately to marriage itself, communism, Italian emotionalism and sexual pride, the courts, the clergy, young love, funerals, murder, and even "La Dolce Vita.” The film’s only premise is that the world is a foolish place inhabited by genial lunatics. One dare not laugh too loudly, for something he values may be next. Yet little about the human condi tion is immune to comic insight, and one need not subscribe to all Germi’s wit to enjoy this ex tended, imaginative, delightfully visual example of sick humor. "Divorce” tells the preposterous story of a Sicilian nobleman, living with his decaying rela tives in the decaying family palace, grown weary of his affectionate but silly wife. Since divorce is illegal, he plans murder, daydreaming methods from drowning her in the wash to shooting her into orbit in a space capsule. Meanwhile, he falls apishly for a convent-bred teenager; their ro mance is an uproarious satire of everything D. H. Lawrence stands for. He decides to .provide his wife a lover, kill them in outraged honor, and throw himself on the sentimental mercies of the Latin courts. Unfortunately, his wife has a lover, who is tired of his wife, who is also outraged. The murder scene is as confused as a rush-hour bus stop. When the hero gets out of prison after three years - there is always an amnesty every three years - he claims his reward and gets it, Germi-style. Chief among “Divorce’s” charms is the Os car- caliber acting of Marcello Mastroianni: slick and mustached, sleepily serene, cheek twitching arro gantly, viewing the world slightly off-tilt like the Tower of Pisa, he is the perfect madman to lead this farce of upside-down values. Germi’s bright little epic dares spoof the un spoof able: the sacrosanct drama of I-can’t-stand- it-any-longer love. “What’s the purpose of life? To love,” the hero's wife says at one point, parroting the heroine of every story of the last 50 years. If love means what it usually does in films, Germi seems to insist, the film will end as “Divorce” does: with several characters dead or disgraced, and the surviving lovers about to move on to the next challenge. Now consider this Second Vatican Council. There are 977 represen tatives from North, South and Cen tral America. Asia has 360 Conciliar Fathers; Africa, 296. Europe, which had dominated since Trent, now has only about 112 more than the Ame ricas, or 38 per cent of the total representation. The shift is to the mission world. Of the new representatives (Asia, Africa and the Ameri cas), only one country is rich—the United States. We are like a palace in a vast slum, a well-stocked refrigerator in a city devastated by hunger. It is enough to make us tremble 1 When the average American Catholic spends $36 a year on cigarettes and gives the Holy Father, who asked that he be aided “first and principally”, an average per capita contribution of only 27 cents a year to help all of the poor missions of the world, there is cause for examina tion of our national conscience. We must give thought to whether we have a right to build great churches, schools, convents and libraries w ithout giving at least one-tenth of one per cent of that sum to the missionary bishops of Africa and Asia, some of whom slept three in a room at the Council because they could not pay for their own quarters. We must give thought...and we must actl Priests: educate native seminarians; send Mass sti pends to poor clergy through The Society for the Propa gation of the Faith; cut out the brass knobs on doors in new gymnasiums and send the $100 to lepers in Korea. Widows and widowers: remember the Holy Father and his own Society in your wills. Write us for details. Youths: deny yourselves five cents worth of pleasure a day and, at the end of the month, send the $1.50 to the Pontiff’s Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Secretaries: take up collections in your offices. Catholics: your duty is first to the poor in the Church, and then to the rich. We beg God that you will share our worries and burdens and help us do something about them I GOD LOVE YOU to A Missionary for $10 “The So ciety for the Propagation of the Faith has done so much for us here in Brazil that I want to show my gratitude. This offering was my Christmas present. Please use it for all those who received no Christmas presents.” ...to Mr. X for $500 “Use it as the Holy Father sees fit.” ...to Miss A.G.L. for $20 “In thanksgiving for finding a good place in a private home when I was ready to leave the hospital.” Send us your old gold and jewelry—the valuables you no longer use but which are too good to throw away. We will resell the earrings, gold eyeglass frames, flat- ware, etc., and use the money to relieve the suffering in mission lands. Our address: The Society for the Pro pagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, New York. Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to it and mail it to Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, National Di rector of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York lx, N. Y. or your Archdiocesan Director, Very Rev. Harold J. Rainey P. O. Box 12047 Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga.