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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1963
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GEORGIA PINES
Golden Islands Of State
BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN
When I was a "Yankee” growing up in New
England it seemed that everytime I read the
local "BUGLE" it carried an account of some
newlyweds honeymooning at Georgia's famous
Sea Island. On taking up residence in Georgia,
I found that very few natives ever honeymoon
or even vacation at this famous resort. The
other night, following a banquet, I was talking
to a doctor and his wife. The doctor was from
Madison county and his wife was from Walton
county. I was amazed when 1 found neither had
ever been to visit Georgia’s
Golden Isles. All of which
gives rise to the fact that-
I am convinced many Georg
ians do not know Georgia.
After 14 years of living
here though, last winter when
I visited Sea Island I was
amazed to find out that there
are so many islands dotting
the shore line of our state.
THE MOST famous of the islands probably is
Jekyll Island. Nationally known, it was purchased
in 1886 by a group of millionaires and used
by them as a winter resort for over 50 years.
On Jekyll island yet to be seen is Major Horton’s
home, the oldest residential ruin in this State;
the ruins of the Brewery where beer was made
for Oglethorpe’s soldiers; the iron kettle from
the slave ship "Wanderer;" the Rockerfeller
cottage; and the marshes where Georgia’s greatest
poet, Sidney Lanier, was inspired to write some
of his most famous poetry, of which the poem
"The Marshes of Glynn" is the most noted.
The State of Georgia purchased Jekyll Island
in 1947 and now the island has many paved roads
leading through scenic areas along an 8 mile
beach dotted with hotels, motels, cottages, re
staurants and camping sites.
Boasting 8,000 year-round residents, another
Island, St. Simons i Island was settled in 1763
by settlers brought from England by Oglethorpe.
An interesting feature of St. Simons is the
fact that live oak timbers cut here in 1794
were used in the building of the U. S. Frigate
Constitution (Old Ironsides). On St. Simons island
too is located the beautiful chapel of St Williams,
a mission of the Marist Fathers church located
in Brunswick. The British victory in 1742 of
this island marked the end of the struggle bet
ween Spain and Britain for control of the south
east section of this country.
ST. SIMONS Island is loaded with much early
American history. Fort Frederica located here
was built by General Oglethorpe in 1736 and was
the most expensive British fortification built in
AmericS. Today is still to be seen the excava
tions of the original town of Frederica uncovered
by archeologists. The town had a population of
approximately 1,000, consisting of a regiment
of English trooDs under the leadership of General
Oglethorpe.
The islands lie in Glynn County which was
named after John Glynn, a member of the English
Parliament, who sympathized with the colonists
in their struggle for independence.
The Goldeji Isles are about a six hour drive
from Atlanta, but well worth the drive. Excellent
accomodations, breath taking scenery, and wond
erful beaches are found everwhere—along
with the fact that you will be learning more
and more and seeing more and more of this
wonderful state in which we live.
QUESTION BOX
Conscience Examination
BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY
Q. MAY WE PLEASE HAVE AS YOUR NEXT
SUBJECT "THE CAREFUL EXAMINATION OF
CONSCIENCE"? YOU SAID IF WE WROTE .IN
AND ASKED FOR IT WE WOULD HAVE IT.
MANY THANKS.
A. Here it is, by popular demand. We have
held if off and searched our soul, seeking to
make it definitive. But reader interest will not
permit further delay.
We have followed the order of the Ten Com
mandments merely because most Catholics are
used to it. Logic and positive goodness groan,
but tradition triumphs:
L Mortal sins against the
First Commandment are rare.
When they do happen, or are
suspected, they should be a
talked over with the confessor.
They might be:
a. Against Faith: guilty, in
tentional rejection of revealed
and defined truths, or deliberate
doubt of them; denying faith
through fear or shame; or fail
ing to profess it when rightly challenged.
b. Against Hope: despair and presumption.
Discouragement and depression are not despair.
Taking foolish chances with salvation is not
presumption.
c. Any sin is a violation of the love of God,
but the priest knows this; so you need not ment
ion it. It is rare, indeed, that anyone actually
hates God.
d. Superstitious beliefs and practices. Most
modern ones are rather silly than seriously
sinful.
e. General neglect of religion, especially of
prayer (but do not try to remember how many
times you missed your morning or evening
prayers).
II. Blasphemy — insulting language against
God, or against holy things — would be the
worst sin against this Commandment. But it is
seldom intentional, serious and malicious.
b. Perjury — deliberately swearing to a
falsehood, or failing to keep a promise made
under oath — would be a serious sin. (You
can avoid it by never taking an oath.)
c. Cursing — Invoking God’s wrath and con
demnation on someone — is a mortal sin when
it is serious, violent and filled with hate.
d. To maliciously develop or retain a habit of
disrespect for God’s holy name or for sacred
persons and things would be seriously sinful.
But ordinary, conventional "swearing" would be
a venial sin because of lack of serious thought and
intent. Unreflecting habit might make irno sin at
all. If you have such a habit don’t try to remember
numbers; just work on the habit.
Ill There are four sins here which might be
mortal:
a. Missing Mass on Sunday or a holyday when
it is our own fault, and we have no sufficient
reason.
b. Coming so late, or leaving so early (or
both) that you miss essential portions of the Mass
on a Sunday or holyday.
c. Working several hours on Sunday without
sufficient excuse. Servile work is hard labor, or
the work by which you earn your living on week
days.
d. Doing unnecessary shopping on Sunday
when much time and attention is given to it and/
or when it contributes notably to the general
growing scandal of business on Sunday. Keeping
your store open on Sunday unnecessarily would
be worse.
IV. Parents should pause here for a long
moment. In most cases they will not be looking
for mortal sins, but for patterns of neglect,
injustice and bad example:
Neglect of education, religious or secular.
Neglect in showing signs of love and appreci
ation, or a haphazard, confusing alternation of
love and rejection.
Injustice: in false accusations, in unfair favor
itism, or by striking a child in anger.
Bad example: impatience, swearing, laziness,
drunkenness, slovenliness, immodesty, etc.
Failing to give good example. A child imitates
by nature, and a thousand counsels or repri
mands will never counteract a failure of example.
The wording of this Commandment applies
directly to children. They honor parents when they
respect and obey them. Love makes honor easy.
Children fail to give honor when they speak
insultingly or offensively to parents, or about
them; when they pout and sulk and quarrel, or
when they scream defiance, or coldly disobey.
As parents get old their child, now mature,
honors them by continued love, care and concern.
It is hard to lay down fast rules for the care of the
ages. Much depends on financial and home situat
ions. But we must try to make them happy and
comfortable, and do nothing to diminish their
self-respect.
While on the subject of obedience we should
reflect on our respect for the laws of the Church
and the State. Church laws not mentioned else
where in my summary are those of fast and
abstinence, and fair-share support of the Church
and her projects of religion and charity.
Most Civil laws bind us in conscience, especlal-
CONT. ON PAGE 8
LITURGICAL WEEK
The Good Shepherd Theme
Continued From Page 4
serves, because both are images of God.
FRIDAY, MAY 3 MASS AS ON SUNDAY. The
trust we express in this Mass of the Good Shep
herd will, if we "follow in his footsteps" (First
Reading), be echoed by the trust that other men
and women have in us and in our work. As our
relation to God is a personal one, so the personal
stamp will be unmistakable in every Christian
relationship and in everything that Christians do.
SATURDAY, MAY 4 ST. MONICA, WIDOW. Per
haps the most beautiful hymn to human work
in the Bible is today’s First Reading, a lesson
which the liturgy uses frequently for Masses
commemorating holy women. The God of the Old
and New Testaments is not a deity who offers
us escape from the cares of this world. He is
rather one who continually reminds man of and
recalls man to his human task.
Saints in Black and White
ST. ZACHARY 18
ACROSS
1. Herd of Whales
4. Units
8. Sleeping Place
11. Dusky
14. Ova
15. Doom
16. Cheer
17. Aeon
18. Biblical Character
19. Jog
20. Suffix Denoting State
21. Brazil Rubber Tree
22. Heating Vessel
24. Siestas
26. Border on
27. He was The ... of St.
John the Baptist
30. Jaguar
33. Smell
36. Caustic Remark
40. Decree
43. Choose
45. Vial
46. African Gazelle
48. One who Consumes
50. Seats
51. Sheath
53. Pertainin to the Lungs
55. City In Northern France
56. Macaroni
58. Memorial of a Saint
60. Route
61. The Angel ...
Appeared to him
63. General Tendency
65. Map Book
67. Soaks
71. Edge of Cliff
74. Stone Chest
77. Drudge
78. Disturbance
79. India Mail
81. Air
84. Lowing Sound
85. Dusk
86. Hail!
87. Mud Deposit
88. City in Finland:
Swedish Name
89. Mated
90. A™ of Sea
9-. Slot
92. New Economic Policy
DOWN
1. Woe
2. Large artery
3. Intended
4. Astern
5. Lobster Box
6. English School
7. Bristle-like organ
8. Emergency
9. Gereal Grain
10. Your; archaic
11. Smear on
12. Eskimo House
13. Appropriate
23. An Exclamation
25. Pacific Time
26. An overshoe
28. Rather than
29. Part
31. Chatter
32. God of Love; Gr Myth.
34. Ground grain
35. Buffo
37. Perfume
38. Snow
39. Middle profits
40. With many
41. Theobromine
42. Palpitate
44. Fourth Month; Jewish
year
47. to draft again
49. Lung sound
52. Dismounted
54. External covering
57. Conger
59. Constellation's main star
62. Flunky
64. Rubbish
66. Yes; Spanish
68. Eve
69. She was changed to
Stone
70. Boat
71. Ale
72. Gad
73. Indebted
75. Belt
76. Three
79. Flat Fish
80. ... Gardner
82. Disagreeable
83. Goddess of Infatuation
ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS PUZZLE PAGE 7
DENIED HEARING
L.A. Archdiocese Scored
On Fr Kueng Incident
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The
Archdiocese of Los Angeles
was- sharply criticized by two
Catholic professors and the nat
ional director of the Catholic
Council of Civil Liberties be
cause Father Hans Kueng, fam
ed theologian, was not given
permission to make a public
address here.
Professor Edgar A. Jones Jr.
and G. Edward Philips of the
University of California at Los
Angeles charged that the arch
diocese "seemed more inter
ested in concealing than in dis
playing Father Hans Kueng in
the Southern California com
munity...”
THOMAS Francis Ritt, head
of the civil liberties gfroup,
claimed "it is now obvious
that archdiocesan officials in
Los Angeles cancelled a sche
duled talk of Father Kueng at
U£LA. This is disquieting be
cause of its obvious implicat
ion and disheartening because
Father Kueng has been an out
spoken critic of 'inquisitorial
methods’ used against members
of the Catholic clergy."
In a releasing a joint state
ment, the professors said they
had done so because The Tid
ings, official archdiocesan
newsweekly, had not published
a letter which they sent to the
publication on the incident.
IN LOS Angeles, the priest
made one talk—at Jesuit-main
tained Loyola University where
the meeting was private. He
had been scheduled to speak
before an estimated 2,500 at
UCLA on April 3, as part of
the university’s Distinguished
Speakers Program.
The Archdiocese of Los
Angeles announced on April 1
that Father Kueng had delayed
in filing a request for permis
sion to make the talk at UCLA.
The Tidings, in an editorial
on the incident, noted that "the
shortness of time had preclud
ed the processing of the neces
sary documents attendant on
such permission."
"SINCE we participated in the
invitation we know that Father
Kueng inquired of the Chancery
by telephone from Spokane on
Thursday, March 28, whether
there would be any objection to
his speaking at UCLA, that he
was told by a certain authorit
ative Chancery official that4ie
should commit his request to
writing and submit it for con-
Altar Society
Group Meet
The regular monthly meet
ing of St. Jude's Altar Society
was held in the School Cafet-
orium recently. The member
ship heard an interesting and
informative panel discussion on
the subject, "The Liturgical
Year". Panel members were
Mrs. Harold McLeod, Mrs.
James L. Brown, Mrs. James
Bresnahan and Mrs. Mel Ru-
mmel.
sideration. Although the UCLA
speaking date did not exactly
constitute a complex proposal,
Father Kueng complied.
"In return, he received a
letter at San Francisco on Mon
day, April 1, containing the
Chancery answer. He then felt
impelled to lmform us that
he would have to decline the
UCLA invitation."
"We have been trying to vis
ualize these documents ever
since," the professors said in
their statement. "Are they ill
uminated in the manner of
monks in medieval gold
script?"
The professors claimed that
it was "obvious" that Loyola
University authorities had been
"placed under effective restra
int" by the archdiocesan Cha
ncery. They charged that per
mission had "obviously been
denied" the Loyola administ
ration to schedule a meeting
open to the laity, other clergy
or nuns of the area.
THEY said they regretted
the archdiocesan handling of
the visit by Father Kueng be
cause "it portrays the Chur
ch, at least in Los Angeles,
as fearful of the ventilation
that Pope John XXIII so dra
matically promised when he
swept open the Vatican win
dows and bade the fresh air
enter. The sad reality is that
in Los Angeles, the second
largest city in America, there
are large numbers of ecumeni
cal-minded clergy and laity who
ARNOLD VIEWING
would dearly love to participate
with the Pope in renewing all
things in Christ as are the vast
majority of the Church’s bis
hops."
It’s For ‘The Birds’
BY JAMES W. ARNOLD
It’s getting so the chief difference between
Alfred Hitchcock and the American-International
horror movies ("1 Was a Teenage Frankenstein,"
"Premature Burial") is the old master’s subtle
manipulation of suspense. After A-l’s recent
self-satire, "The Raven," Hitchcock has no
monopoly on macabre humor, and the box office
receipts from "Psycho" have put a severe over
lay of cabbage on the veteran Britisher’s good
taste.
Tatelessness is the major
flaw in Hitchcock's latest, "The
Birds," which is basically a
colossal case of delirium tre
mens. The bizarre tale is free
ly adapted from a famous nove
lla by Daphne DuMaurier ("Re
becca"), an author whose off
beat sense of evil is something
to cope with on a dark, stormy
night.
THE IDEA of the horror story
has always been to entertain by vicarious fright:
the more incomprehensible the terror, the better.
What frightens man the most is what he least
understands, the malevolent spirit in the universe
that seeks to impose, without logic of any kind, a
pain that is only darkly imagined.
Evil is especially chilling when it appears
incongruously under the guise of innoncence.
Some hair-raising tales of terror have involved
an Inexplicable evil in children. In "The Birds,"
Miss [XiMaurier brilliantly transfers a satanic
malice to the gentlest, least aggressive creat
ures, then leaves the phenomenon deliciously
unexplained.
The story has been done superbly on radio;
Hitchcock feels it is best as a movie. But not,
unfortunately, the sort of movie he has made.
The line between horror and disgust in thin; it is
almost always crossed when the infliction of pain,
or its aftermath, is made specific and concrete,
rather than suggested. The beauty of radio ( and
literature) is that violence seldom explicitly con
fronts the senses, but occurs in the mind of each
reader or listener. And somehow the imagined
horror is always more fearful than the real one,
for each man releases his own worst fantasies.
A FILM must show pictures of things, but they
need not be direct. In "Psycho," the camera sees
only the blood mixing with the water in the show
er. Too explicit? Perhaps, but at least we do not
see the stabbing or. the mutilated body. In "The
Birds," however, we are treated to endless shots
of birds assaulting their bloodied victims, mainly
women and children, with sadistic concentration
on the eyes.
The viewer is repelled, not delighted; that the
producer could think otherwise shows what he
thinks of his audience. Technically, the business
comes off rather well, since the attacking beasts
obviously are supplied by mechanical gadgets and
trick photography, generally well-disguised. But
the trend to specified violence is a depressing
sign of the times. "It was revolting," one says
increasingly of shows, "but the nail-pulling sce
nes were in splendid technicolor."
The movie may kill the tourist trade at Bode
ga Bay, a picturesque fishing village in pretty
but desolate northern California, where the mood
approximates the original Brittany; the squawk
of local seagulls will never be the same. The
subdued color shows off the town well, especially
a home and school both over 100 years old and a
quaint storefront post office.
SCENARIST Evan Hunter ("Blackboard Jun
gle") pads out the original plot with a set of
characters from women’s magazine fiction: a
spoiled rich girl (newcomer ’Tippi’ Hedren), a
muscular criminal lawyer (Rod Taylor), his ex-
girl friend (Suzanne Pleshette) and clinging mother
(solid pro Jessica Tandy).
Few conflicts are resolved (everyone’s too busy
batting off the birds), and the impression is that
the non-horror half of the film was concocted to
show off the cool, beauty salon-lacquered looks
of Miss Hedren. Hitchcock thinks he has a star
in this blonde, ladylike high fashion model, a
truly crashing beauty, but she demonstrates an
unpleasant brittleness and limited emotional arti
llery. She also reminds one too much of Connie
Stevens.
Patient, strong-stomached viewers will be re
warded with several pow scenes. The best shows
Miss Hedren seated nervously on a fence, waiting
for the children to get out of school, while behind
her, as the children sing a distant classroom
ditty, the evil birds gather slowly on the play
ground monkey bars. The climactic attack on
the house, with birds shrieking, women cower
ing, and actor Taylor frantically battening down
splintering doors, is a masterful heart-thumper.
One seeks no explanation in "The Birds," but
it would help if there were meaning. There is
a hint in one scene, when the townswomen turn
on Miss Hedren, a stranger, as the scapegoat of
their troubles. Hitchcock allows us a frightening
closeup of the eternal Face of Hysteria. Bird-
lovers may find comfort in the fact that a couple
of pet lovebirds never do turn vicious, and are
rescued in the end, like survivors of Noah’s Ark,
perhaps to give our feathered friends a new start,
free of what they contracted from mankind, the
diabolical disease of war.
CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS:
For everyone: The Miracle Worker, To Kill a
Mockingbird, Gigot.
For connoisseurs: Sundays and Cybele, Long
Day's Journey into Night.
Better than most: The Longest Day, Days of Wine
and Roses, Mutiny on the Bounty,
Billy Budd, A Child is Waiting.
Communists Give Favorable Comment
LONDON (RNS) — With the
sole exception of China, the
press and radio in all the
Communist countries reported
the issuance of Pope John XXIII
new encyclical on peace and
gave brief summaries of the
document.
The Soviet news agency,
Tass, as well as the Russian
radio network gave a 300-word
summary erf Pacem in Terris,
citing in full the Pope’s
passages on disarmament under
effective controls.
God Love You
MOST REVEREND FULTCN J. SHEEN
Florence Nightingale, in a moment of self-revelation, de
scribed the opposition she met as a woman nurse, the number
of times she was ordered out of hospitals and then kept waiting
for hours to re-enter. She ^aid that she ignored all of these
things for the sake of the work: "What am I to my Master’s
work? When people offend me, they offend the Master before
they do me. And who am I that I should not choose to bear that
they do me. And who am I that I should not choose to bear what
my Master chooses to bear?"
This brings up the question of how much we really love
Christ in the Church. Can we say that we love Christ when we
do not love that for which He came to this earth, namely, to
save sinners? How many souls have we ever saved? How many
sinners have we converted? A survey reveals that twice as
many Protestants ask their neighbors to join their Church as
do Catholics.
But what is love, any
way? Love is something we
do. It is a verb, not a noun.
It is something we do to a
neighbor for Christ's sake.
An Indian who was convert
ed to Christianity by a
vision of Christ refused
to enter the ministry be
cause he said he could
learn more by practicing
Christ’s love of neighbor than he could by studying about
Christ. An African catechist, his legs eaten off to the knees
by leprosy, makes forty' converts a day. Here is a man who
truly loves 1
We must be active not just as human beings, but as Catho
lics. After listening to a Communist speaker in New York, a
layman turned to a policeman and said: "Why can’t you stop
this attack on the government?" The policeman and said:
"Why can’t you stop this attack on the government?" The
policeman replied: "If you are a Christian, you have a far
better case than he. Just work at your Faith as this man
does at his, and Communism will be swallowed up in your
goodness," The Society for the Propagation of the Faith
"works at the Faith"in its 80,000 schools, 10,000 hospitals
and dispensaries, 400 leper colonies, 2000 orphanages and
500 homes for the aged. They could work even more effecti
vely if you loved enough to help I
GOD LOVE YOU' to Mrs. A. B. for $2 "For all of God’s
poor throughout the world.’’ ... to Mr. and Mrs. O. R. for
$10 "This is the balance of the money we planned to use in
purchasing articles from friends who just broke up their
home. Let the Holy Father use it for the homeless." ...
to' L. O. for $ 1 ‘*The Society for the Propagation of the Faith
is my favorite charity because I can reach the poor of the
world through it. I cannot give much at a time, but I can give
often." ... to Mrs. E. M. for $10.50 "I have been saving the
change from my husband’s pay check each week. This is a*
very good way to save money for the Missions."
Solve your gift problems with OUR LADY OF TELEVIS
ION statues, now available in two sizes. All 11-inch figure
of Madonna and Child, constructed of unbreakable white
plastic with gold-colored cross and halo, reminds us that as
Mary gave the Divine Word to the world, so television pro
jects the human word. A 4-inch model with black suction-cup
base is ideal for use in autos. Send your request and an offering
$3 (11-inch) or $1 (4-inch) to The Society for the Propagation
of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, New York.
SHEENCOLUMN: Cut otit this column, pin your sacrifice to
it and mail it to Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, National Director
of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue,
New York Ux, N.Y, or your Diocesan Director. Rev. Harold
J. Rainey, P.Q. Box 12047, Norths id e Station, Atlanta 5, Ga.