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*. * k GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1963 PAGE 7 LOVING CARE Education Plays Important Role For Rehabilitation Of Retarded Some years back, a specia list in children’s allergies com plained about the lack of re search funds available. He was heard to further remark: "Oh, for somebody in the White House whose family is affected by the problem. We would soon have money to do the job.” The doctor was referring, of course, to the national interest and support for work on polio during and after Franklin Roo sevelt’s years in the White House. NOW, today we have a simi lar situation in relation to men tal retardation. President Ken nedy has a sister who has la bored under this difficulty. Un der his urging, steps are being taken nationally to do some thing positive about the pro blem. This, of course, is not to say that the medical profes sion has ignored the problem. Indeed, great strides have al ready been made, but greater assistance and new discoveries in relation to the problem are expected in the future. As always, the Church is ne ver behind science and medicine in its efforts to alleviate suffer ing through modem up-to-date methods. Hence, Our Lady’s Day School, 44 Hunter Street, S.W. in Atlanta, was establish ed to cater for exceptional chil dren who might otherwise miss the opportunity of rehabilita tion. President Kennedy himself placed the problem in its pro per light when he said last year, "Mental retardation. . . disables ten times as many as diabetes; twenty times as many as tuberculosis; twenty-five times as many as muscular dystrophy; six hundred times as many as infantile paralysis. Approximately five million per sons in this country are retar ded. In this same talk he stat ed, "Mental retardation is a serious personal matter to at least one out of every twelve people." BROKEN down into statistics, it is disclosed that some three hundred mentally retarded chil dren are born every day. This works out about 120,OCX) a year. What is more, it transcends social and cultural values. Both rich and poor, city or rural dweller, can be affected in such a way that none can say, "It won’t happen in my family." We do not have the compe tence to go into the causes of mental retardation. We prefer to leave that to the medical specialists involved, but we do know that many who suffer from it are educable and capable of much independent thought and action. In 1953, the National Asso ciation for Retarded Children adopted a five-fold Bill of Rights for the retarded child. In brief, this is what it asks: 1. The right to opportunities for the fullest realization of his physical, mental, and spiritual potentialities. 2. The right to affection and understanding from those re sponsible for his care and gui dance. 3. The right to a program of education and training suitable to his particular needs. 4. The right to help, stimu lation and guidance from skill ed teachers. 5. The right of a retarded child’s parents to determine for themselves, on the basis of competent advice, the course of care, training and treatment among those open to themsel ves. They also have a right to have their decisions respected by others. HERE in Atlanta, steps are being taken to implement this so-called Bill of Rights, and more, in relation to Catholic children. Our Lady's Day school was founded in September, 1957, through the foresight of the late Monsignor Cornelius Maloney, Diocesan Superintendent of Schools and Pastor of Immacu late Heart of Mary Parish. It is the only Catholic facility in the area and in the state teach- SALT LAKE CITY, Utah(NC) _ The dean of the influential Harvard Law School has sharp ly attacked the U. S. Supreme ‘Court for leading Americans into darkness on matters of re ligion and public life. Erwin N. Griswold also stat ed flatly that the court was wrong in ruling as unconsti tutional the voluntary recita tion in New York public schools of a 22-word, non-sectarian prayer recommended by the State Board of Regents. HE TOLD a University of Utah audience that it would be "sheer invention” if the court reasons that the Constitution requires that all traces of re ligion must be kept out of pub lic activities. The high court is guilty of narrow "constitutional abso lutism" and this reasoning is "more likely to lead us into darkness than to light," he said. He cited Justice Hugo Black’s decision for the majority against public school prayer as an example of the "absolu tist" or "fundamental theolo gical” approach. "If one thinks of the Consti tution as a God-given text stat ing fixed law for all time, and *then focuses on a single pas sage, or indeed on two words —'no law’ — without recog nizing all the other words in the document and its relation to the society outside the docu ment, one can find the answers very simply,” Griswold said. THIS apparently was a refer ence to Black’s comment as he read the opinion. Black noted that the First Amendment says Congress shall "make no law respecting the establishment of religion..." Black commented that "when it says 'no law,’ that is what it means — 'no law.’ ” Griswold said the First Amendment does not mean that religion must be taken out of public life. America, he said, is historically a Christian na tion with a spiritual and cul- Commissioner Cathy Pace Miss Cathy Pace, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Pace, was recently elected to Academic Commissioner of St. Mary’s College Student Council at Notre Dame, Indiana. Cathy is a Junior and has maintained an "A" average, throughout. She also has a one-hour Radio Show through the Notre Dame- St. Mary's Station every Sunday afternoon entitled "The Very- Thought of You". tural tradition related to Chris tianity. "We ought not be be depriv ed of this tradition by judges carrying into effect the local implications of absolutist no tions not expressed in the Con stitution itself and surely never contemplated by those who put the constitutional provisions into effect,” he said. DEFENDING traces of reli gion found in public life, he said: "Our history is full of these traces; chaplains in Congress and in the armed forces; cha pels in prisons; 'In God We Trust' on our money; to men tion only a few. "God is referred to in our National Anthem, and in 'Ame rica* and many others of what may be called our national songs. "Must all of these things be rigorously extirpated in order to satisfy a constitutional ab solutism?" ON THE New York prayer case, decided by the court in June, 1962, Griswold said the prayer practice did not con flict with the First Amend ment's requirements. "Those who wrote the 'es tablishment of religion’ clause might be perplexed by the use which is made of it in 1962," he said. ing students who are mentally retarded. The prime purpose of this education is to develop the whole child, fulfilling all the talents each child possesses. When Monsignor Maloney, with his great interest and love for children of exceptional abili ties, asked Sister M. Vernard R.S.M, to be the principal of this school, Sister explained her meaning of "exceptional” as "genius of the heart." For the students do indeed bring forth the love, tenderness, pa tience, kindness and thoughtful ness of everyone. The school, which has a stu dent body of 15, is presently housed in the Immaculate Con ception School. Already child ren are moving forward from Sister Mary Venard’s able care into the regular school system, destined to take their places in the community as useful, happy children. FIFTEEN Is a pathetically small number of children, when the great need of hundreds who have been tested and await ad mission is considered. But even fifteen is a start toward bigger and better things to come. And it is this ardent hope for bigger and better things that inspires the enthusiastic moth ers associated with the school. Each year they give a gala bridge luncheon and fashion show for the benefit of the school. But their work does not stop there. Knowing from experience how much the mother of an ex ceptional child needs to be able to talk to someone who under- NELSON-RIVES REALTY INC. S665A Clalrmont Road CHAMBLEE, GEORGIA Formerly Sml-.»l Realty l'e., Int. Howard C. Nelson. President Ernest M. Hive*. 8ecretary-Trea». The year-round cookbook with ' ' r> a special Lenten £ flavor- the i ija ART OF HI THERE SISTER! WHAT'S FOR TODAY IN SCHOOL? Sister M. Vernard and Friend stands the special problems she confronts, the mothers of Our Lady’s Day School have formed themselves into an in formal group that meets for cof fee the second TYiesday of each month. Here, where all moth ers of exceptional children are welcomed regardless of reli gious affiliation, they can talk, as mothers do, about their children, and from each other they gain insight and strength, as well as enjoying the com panionship that comes when people rest. share a common inte- The goal of Our Lady's Day School is to develop the whole child , to help him fulfill his abilities, both mental and spi ritual. The goal of the moth ers’ group is to assist the school and each other and to gether, school and parents, ano ther small candle is being light ed againsi the darkness of ig norance and fear. 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