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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1963 GEORGIA PINES PAGE 5 Gensus-A Job Well Done Saints in Black and White | GROSS OVER^SIMnJFICATION ST. ANTONY OF EGYPT 14 BY FATHER R. DONALD KIERNAN Its about all over now except the tabulations. Those 6000 volunteers who worked on the first archdiocesan census have much to be proud of. Everyone agrees that it was a job well done. The day itself was a day well worth remem bering, too. Certainly it was the finest day, wea ther-wise, which we have had this year. It was truly an answer to the prayers which have been offeced up ever since the census project was an nounced. A fitting aftermath of the whole project though, would be if all of the inte resting stories could be com piled. No doubt they would make real good reading. It seemed that as each team would return to the Rectory a whole new batch of interest ing experiences would be re ive aled. Here in Gainesville, the lo cal clergy enthusiastically endorsed the Catholic project. Archbishop Hallinan had written to the ministers of the different denominations informing them of the project. From their pulpits and church announcements, everyone knew that Sunday the Catholics of this town were "counting noses.** ONE GOOD man taking the census turned around to see a big dog standing behind him. He said it looked like one of those St. Bernard dogs of Swiss Alps fame. The dog merely wanted to look it the census-cards, and one sniff took him back b his shade tree. Another group trailed a man down to a fishing d ck on Lake Lanier. This gentleman said that he kiew the census was being taken up and was to beas complete as possible, but he didn't think we were going to count the fish in Lake Lanier too. Two teen-agers were actually chased out of a house with a broom. The lady thought they were magazine salesmen, and when asked if there were any baptized Catholics living at that address she replied, "she already had enough.** IT WAS interesting too to note the number of people of different denominations who invited the census takers into their homes and offered them coffee, cokes and things to eat. The press, radio and television too, played a most interesting and cooperative part. They cer- tainly are to be thanked for the publicity which they gave to the project thereby insuring its suc cess. In any project such as this, experience brings with it, know-how. The whole project was well planned and well thought out. Nothing was left to chance, and I suppose that the greatest thanks should go to those 6000 volunteers who made the project a success. IT WAS gratifying to read the work-sheets which indicated the streets and homes which were visit ed. It showed the dilligence and care which the team captains had taken to assign areas of re sponsibility, and the enthusiasm with which the workers had met their responsibilities. Then late in the afternoon when the cards had all been returned and the chairmen had checked them out, all of the workers were gathered in the church for Benediction. Two men who had never been in the sactuary before, served. That too was a new experience for them. Finally, outside die church after the ceremony, a new-comer to our town who had volunteered to work on the project came up and said, "Father, you sure were right when you said that friend ships would be formed out of this project. Now I feel that I really belong here." QUESTION BOX About Sunday Shopping? BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY Q. I AM A RETAIL MERCHANT AND AM MUCH CONCERNED THAT WE MAY BE FORC ED BY COMPETITION FROM DISCOUNT HOUS ES TO JEEP OUR STORE OPEN ON SUNDAY. MOST CF THE OTHER MERCHANTS OF THE CITY Sh\RE MY CONCERN. IT WILL TAKE US AWAY FlOM OUR FAMILIES, AND )YILL MAKE OUR EMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS DIFFICULT. BESIDES MANY OF US REALIZE THAT IT IS CONTRAFY TO OUR RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS AND OBLGATIONS. WE ARE TRYING TO GET \ LAW PISSED TO FORCE SUNDAY CLOSING 3UT WE DON'T SEEM TO GET MUCH BACK- NG EVEN FROM OUR CATHOLIC AUTHORI TIES. A. Sunda r has been a day of rest since the sarly centudes of Christianity. In the Fourth Cen- ury the Enperor Constantine passed a law for- >idding any judiciary action in court on Sunday, [heodosius tie Great re-affirmed that law, but nade one ex:eption: it was permitted to free a slave on Sunday. In the days of Charlemagne, around 800, all political as semblies, markets, and pub lic sales were forbidden on Sunday by civil law. About the beginning of the Eleventh Century, the Anglo-Saxons had civil laws forbidding mer chandising on the Lord’s day h England. Throughout the course of history civil laws bve probably had more effect than Church laws iipreventing business on Sunday. When the Puri- tp and Anglican c»lonists came to this country tty brought the tradition of such civil laws with tfcm, and enforced them with such rigor that tty really made thtm blue. No such wild idea a the separation of Church and State ever en- tred their minds. Now the attitude in our country has changed greatly. Generally our business world is quite touchy about government regulation or inter ference. And then there is the constitutional is sue: unless your law is written with great care it will be struck down by the Supreme Court as violating the First Amendment. We as Catholics are quite aware that the law of our Church forbids public marketing on Sun day - except for those lines of it which are con sidered necessary by our modern society. However, quite apart from religious convic tions, we know that Sunday closing has great ad vantages to us as individuals, and great benefits to society in general. Men must have at least one day of rest each week, if they are to main tain their health. They need a bit of recreation or they become very dull boys. They need oppor tunity for a bit of cultural and intellectual ac tivity - at least on the level of TV, which offers its sanest programs on Sunday. Without the rest, outings and intimacies which Sunday provides our family life disintegrates. We can surely generalize without hesitancy that our whole society is sounder, happier, more alert and smoother running because of Sunday closing. In recent years we have heard many com plaints from Bishops, priests and ministers (as well as business men) that our comfortable cus toms of Sunday closing are being torn wide open by the greed of some in the market place, and the press of competition on the rest. What is to be done about it? Any long-range improvement of the situation must be based on sound public attitude and opin ion. Now that Christian groups are coming to gether in fraternal love, they should cooperate with each other in building this public opinion. And Catholic people should lead the way. Bishop Hits Confusion Of Morality - Legality ACROSS 1. Self 4. Melt 8. Profundity 13. Unit 14. Search 15. Paltry 17. HU Biography Contained First Mention of thli Word 19. Raft 20. Exclamation 22. Eject 23. Reared 24. Athletic Course 25 Eisenhower 27. Palisade 28. Sport 29. Aid 30. No. American wild geese 31. Heptade 33. Wary 32. Nectar 34. He Is Called .... Father 35. Mountain 36. Baking Chambers 37. Surtout 38. He was an .... 40. Desolate or Forlorn 41. Swab 44. On Earth 45. Son 46. Wilt 47. Latin American Country 49. Call 50. King of Judea 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 62. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 16. 18. 19. Possessive Pronoun; 21. pl. 23. Star of "Shane" 24. Premier .... 25. Electric Unit; Abbrv. Cunning 26. A Flower 27. Southern State; 28. Abbrv 30. College in N. Y. 31. Loiterer 33. A Southern 34. Constellation 36. Theobromine 37. Period 39. Approach 40. Guide 41. Haunt 42. DOWN 43. Age 45. African Antelope 46. Beverage of Wine and Honey drunk 47. by Ancient Greeks 48. Demonstrative Pronoun; pl. Injure Even One Weight Misdemeanor; Law School, Fr. A Map 56. Make Edging 58. Exclamation of 59. Greeting 60. Poet 61. Night, Fr. 63. Comical 64. 49. 50. 52. 53. 55. Feebleminded Person Endures Ceded Mother; child's word Assists Coin of France Adventure To Misrepresent Senate of Ireland Measure Dorbeetle Part of Ship; pl. To Wind Tweet Conduct He' Hoped to be Aroma Children; Comb. Form External Covering Part of an Escutcheon Carbon Mortal Facts A Shed Of the Moon Boat He Was Born at ...., Middle Egypt Coin of India Anger Share Prior Sped Upon Case; Abbrv. ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS PUZZLE PAGE 7 PITTSBURGH, Pa. (NC)— Bishop John J. Wright of Pitts burgh has cautioned against complicating moral-legal ques tions by confusing them with Church-State conflicts. "It is frequently a gross oversimplification to set up cries over the Catholic hierar chy or the National Council of Churches as the causes of the overlapping area of morality and legality, especially on points where legal and moral considerations have been long and inevitably interrelated,** the Bishop said in a lenten lec ture. BISHOP Wright said history shows that "moral feeling and moral conviction have necessa rily colored whole chapters of legislation of a strictly civil kind.*’ He declared this coloring lin gers in numerous fields, in cluding lawyers, dwelled parti cularly on the problem of the relationship between morality and legality on the birth control issue. Bishop Wright said the issue "does not boil down to Massa- chussets and Connecticut against the enlightened pack.” He declared that 17 states prohibited traffic in contracep tives except through doctors; offices and pharmacies, while 16 states regelate the contra ceptive trade by requiring that information on contraception conform to accurately, defined standards. "IN FACT,” said the Bis hop, "there are only eight sta tes which have no law on contra ception. But in all eight of these states there is control on the ad- ARNOLD HEWING Lion-Stunning Exciting BY JAMES W. ARNOLD LITURGICAL WEEK Superiority Of Faith The producers of "The Lion" have made a stunning and exciting film out of a mediocre novel, an event not nearly so rare as literary men would have us believe. As a movie with some thing intelligent to offer both young people and adults, it is the best since "Gigot"; as good jungle fiction, it forces one to reach back toward "King Solomon’s Mines” for suitable comparisons. A genuine "family" movie is as hard to find as a genuine "family" television program; both occur roughly as often as magicians who can really saw people in half. Most so-called family shows (in cluding the pisney products) are basically children's en tertainments with a few jokes, pretty girls and Fred Mac- Murrays thrown in to keep Mom and Dad from falling asleep. Some Hollywood moralists view this sort of thing as the salvation of movie morality: they would stamp out Brigitte Bardot with the Brothers Grimm, Lassie and flubber. It is hard to say which alternative Is more depressing. ON THE kids* level, "The Lion" is a magni ficently photographed fable about a child (Pamela Franklin) who is buddy-buddy with all the animals in her stepfather's East African game reserve and whose best friend is a lion. In the book, this was incredible; in the movie, it happens before your eyes. She scratches his shaggy ears, bosses him around, even rides him piggy-back. But Mother (Capucine) is worried: She did not raise her girl to be Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Continued From Page 4 cr need of forgiveness. Ana both Sinai account (irst Reading) and burning criticism of pha- , jiaical tendencies in religion (Gospel) tell us to t sorry for the real thing, for real sins—quite tfferent sometimes from the breaches of habit, *:ial custom, systems of etiquette, which it is i easy to place as a shield between ourselves and tJ living God. MARCH 21, THURSDAY, THIRD WEEK IN liNT. Today's commemoration of the holy phy- £ians Cosmas and Damian proclaims Christ as laler (Entrance Hymn, Gospel, Offertory Hymn). Jdoesn’t proclaim Christianity as some kind of Jttled remedy, but the Lord as healer, a per- jnal relationship. And the First Reading con- »ues yesterday’s warning against making this •lationship merely mechanical, merely tnsti- tional. No good, teaches the prophet Jeremias, I response confidence i n the institutions and pans of religion without love, without the human <11, without moral effort. MARCH 22, FRIDAY, THIRD WEEK IN LENT. Though man's approach to God, his worship of God, is sacramental and institutional (human na ture requires signs, words, tangible things), yet God is a spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth" (Gospel). Both Scripture readings have reference to Bap tism and the water symbol even while both stress the primacy of interior faith and trust. MARCH 23, SATURDAY, THIRD WEEK IN LENT. Because Baptism, the Easter sacrament, washes man clean of his sins yet leaves him free and capable of sinning again, the Collects of the Lenten Masses (as in today's) frequently ask our Father to grant us through our fasting the grace to abstain from sin. The First Reading speaks of God's punishment of sin and protection of the innocent. The Gospel goes further and teaches His forgiveness and pro tection of the guilty. In Penance or confession we have a second baptism, an opportunity to be cleansed again and to hear the words "Go now, and do not sin any more" (Communion Hymn, Gospel). In Joseph Kessel's novel, the adults were dis agreeable, mixed-up people who seemed somewhat less noble than the affable rhinos and wilde beests in the bush. Scenarists Irene and Louis Kamp have reworked them into three-dimon- sional humans who understand that love involves pain and sacrifice. THERE is the American ex-husband (durable William Holden) who has found a legal career empty without his wife and daughter, and the stepfather (Trevor Howard), an ex-hunter who has put aside the joys of a Great Bwana to lounge about the compound with the family. Capucine still loves Holden, but she'll stay on with Trevor If he’ll allow the child to go back with her father the dubious advantages of American civilization. \ Surrounding everything are the vast rolling plains and dark-showed mountains of Kenya, shot superbly in color by Ted Scalfe, with startling ly fresh views of the native inhabitants ranging from fierce tribesmen to antelope, rhinos, hippos and elephants. No elephants ever loomed as big as the beasts shown here. One charging hippo comes so close that the chomp of his jaws seems to swallow the first seven rows of the orchestra. A herd of giraffe, sweeping across a back-country road with effortless grace and power, compare only with a pro basketball fast break. ACTOR Holden contributes not only his usual smooth virility, but some of the scenery: the film was shot near his luxurious Kenya Safari Club deep in Mau-Mau country. But the picture is purloined by Britisher Howard (whose recent Cap tain Bligh was one of several Oscar nomination oversights); his white hunter manages to be simul taneously complex, nasty and deeply likeable. Head wizard in the success of "The Lion", however, is British director Jack Cardiff ("Sons and Lovers"), a brilliant one-time cinemato grapher ("Red Shoes”, "War and Peace") whose camera work in "The African Queen” was monumental. Cardiff keeps hi$ actors in tight con trol of their surface emotions; his cameras peer at the primitive scenery in continual open-eyed wonder. BOTH AWE and fright touch the spectator in scene after scene. In one, actor Holden, with the veldt stretching gorgeously behind him, meets the lion for the first time and advances, step by step, to pat the beast's apocalyptic forehead. (He said later: "I was damn brave.") The girl asks if she and the lion can escort him back through the jungle. "No thinks,” he quips, "I*m not that afraid.” Another time, a lioness comes a-wooing and seems ready to have her rival, Miss Franklin, for lunch. Director Cardiff builds chills with deft cutting from the lioness back and forth to the girl, whose extreme but controlled fright alone is enough to make viewers cower behind their popcorn boxes. (Pam is an expert at this: she last petrified audiences as one of the posses sed children in "The Innocents"). The climax throws together all ^he principals, including the lion (. a tame animal actor named, unimaginatively, Zamba), in a hectic, bloody fight in a drenching bush rainsquall. The five-minute sequence, with its symbolism, cutting, closeups, zooming lenses and sheer impact, compares with any five minutes in any other film released this season. AS CATHOLICS we may be happy that the ori ginal husband and wife get back together. But the beauty is in how it happens; each adult makes a sincerely unselfish gesture, with no real hope of personal profit. As a result, each gets, perhaps not all he wanted, but satisfaction, and the love and respect of the others. In this action film, the people, for a change, are as real as the animals. The combination brings about a sense of wonder at the power and love of the Creator that one should get more often from movies which make no pretense at being more than skillful family entertainment. vertising of contraceptives. That is, advertising must be limited to medical journals and 'like media." CDA Names Anti-Smut Committee WASHINGTON (NC)—A new national committeeT:alled "Wo men for Decency” has been formed by the Catholic Daugh ters of America. CDA Supreme Regent Marga ret J. Buckley of suburban Che vy Chase, Md., said the object of the committee will be to combat obscene literature and to "clean up” magazine stands and book racks throughout the country. MRS. LUCILE Kennedy of Tacoma, Wash., who has been in CDA work for 25 years, was named chairman of the com mittee and Mrs. M. Teresa Syn- der of Baltimore vice chair man. "And,” Bishop Wright added, "the letter of the Federal law is even more strict than the states’ laws, including those in ' Connecticut and Massachusetts —though, to be sure, these Federal laws have been modi fied by judicial interpretation.” The origin of these laws, and others where morality and le gality are related, is more the result of the "relationship of the general moral consensus to the Western tradition of law than of ecclesiastical pres sures, Catholic or Protestant," the Bishop argued. HE continued: "Law in the Western tradition is essential ly limited and concerned with the public good. Morality goes beyond this to consider the in dividual good. Though these are clearly distinct, the distinctions are never absolute because of the close connection between legality and morality in terms of philosophical concepts and common social motives.” Bishop Wright emphasized this latter point as explana tion of the frequent relationship between what the state must require and enforce and what the moralists must teach. God Love You MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN Our government has spent 97 billion dollars on foreign aid within sixteen years. If you handed out $185 a minute night and day for 1000 years to get rid of that sum, you’d still have money on your hands 1 Religious people believed in and practiced foreign aid long before governments did. And they do a much better job than governments. Why? 1) Because they give to the people in foreign lands, not to the politicians. 2) Because there is less overhead in charitable organizations. 'Some 200,000 of our workers throughout the world receive no salary 1 3) Because the charitable groups live with the poor people, speak their language, share their miseries and love them, which government offi cials do not. Why not, then, amend fo reign aid in some such way as this? If Catholic, Protes tant or Jew gives any amount to a recognized charitable or ganization which specializes in aid to poor nations, the government should allow the whole of that deduction. Sett ing a limit on what is tax de ductible is to penalize the hun gry two—thirds of the earth who are helped by such charity. Consider The Society for the Propaga tion of the Faith, for example. Its aid goes everywhere — the Near East, the poor parts of the United States, Africal, Asia, Latin Ame rica, Northern Europe and Oceania. It helps sup port 10,000 hospitals and dispensaries, 80,000 schools, 2000 orphanages and 400 leper colonies. On reading such a plan as this, the first thing the American people are told to do is, "Write your Congressman.” We want that to be second. This would only prove that you were more inte rested in getting a deduction than in being chari table. So first write to your National or Diocesan Director, sending a check to help the poor. Then write to your Congressman. It will be the first time he ever received a letter from a constituent who did an act of charity for the poor before he asked for an act of justice! If you have the Lord on your side, maybe your Congressman will try to be on the Lord’s side tool GOD LOVE YOU to E. A. B. for $113 "lam 79 years old and offer this in thanksgiving for not having to have an operation on my eyes. Please use this for your lepers." ...to Anonymous for $25 "My motto is ’Sacrifice now and trust to God’s goodness.’ Please have the Holy Father use it as he sees fit." ... to a Thankful Teenager for $6 "I am a very lucky teenager who is blessed with > a large wardrobe. Now I want to share my bless ings and help buy clothes for the poor.” ...to E. A. M. for $5 "I saved these few dollars for one of many little things I need. After reading your column, I find I don’t need a thing.” ... to R. P. and Father for $5.35 "The local Pepsi Cola distributor gave half a cent to a worthy charity for every bottle cap. We collected 1,070 Pepsi caps, so the Missions are that much rich er." HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW ISSUE OF MIS SION? It’s a Special Message to the Catholics of the United States by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen! If you are on our mailing list, you know that MIS SION is our bi-monthly magazine containing ar ticles, anecdotes, cartoons and pictures. If you're not, write in and be put on our list. A subscrip tion is only $ 1. 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 ttye Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York 1 N. Y. or your Archdiocesan Director, Very Rev. Harold J. Rainey P. O. Box 12047 Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga.