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P.4GL f GI.ORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1963 POPE ANNOUNCES Perpetual Peace Fund With His Balzan Prize CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE of other Balzan prizes had re ceived their awards. It was the second time the Balzan Peace Prize has been awarded and the first time it has been won by an individual. The first award went to the Nobel Foundation of Stockholm. The prize is named for the late Eugenio Dalzan, editor of the Milan newspaper, Corriere della Sera, who left Italy for Switzerland during the fas cist era. 'Hie citation of the award was read to the Pope in the Regal Hail by Arangio Ruiz, presi dent of the Pal/an Foundation's awards committee. It said the pri/c given to the Pontiff is intended to be "a public re cognition of your activity in favor of brotherhood among men and among all peoples through appeals for peace and to the good will of men, and for your This Ad Worth 50< ON ALL TYPES OF ELECTRICAL REPAIRS AT Home & Hobby Shop BELMONT HILLS SHOPPING CENTER PHONE: 435-5122 R. S. SEELEY, MGR. Laiis Look For Oscar recent intervention at the dipl omatic level." THE latter was taken as a reference to the Pope's appeal for peace at the height of the Cuban crisis last October when Soviet ships carrying arms were sailing toward a U. S. naval blockade of that island nation. The citation also praised the Pope “for having promoted the brotherhood of men and peoples, particularly during the last year inviting representatives of other Christian faiths, Orthodox and Protestant, to attend the ecumenical council and take an active part in it, thus engen dering between the members of the churches or these confess ions and Catholics an attitude of greater future understanding which will have manifold and important consequences, and for having established contacts which extend far beyond the Christian community." The Pope spoke briefly. He noted that while the Re gal Hall had welcomed kings and emperors, it has also welcomed "pilgrims of labor" who came to Rome to thank Pope Leo XIII for his great enyclical on labor, Rerum Novarum. He closed with a blessing and remarked "after this little blessing here, now the great one in St. Peter's." POPE JOHN recalled the five popes he had known in his life time—Leo XIII, St. Pius X, Ben edict XV, Plus XI and Plus XII. All of them were, he said, "True friends of humanity and co urageous artisans of true pe ace." He continued: "The humble Pope who spe aks to you is fully aware of being something very small be- OLYMPIA Portable Typewriters Finest (X Quality GEORGE STRUPE Typewriter Service Co. 1083 Peachtree St., N. E. Phone 875-5368 Allanla’s Most Unusual Pizzeria Lounge Original 4 INK SPOTS Opening Monday June 3rd In The Cocktail Lounge Monday Thru Saturday 6-9:30 P.M. No Cover No Minimun No Admission Call For Reservations ta. PARTY . p si . —2 a ir.. H ,*i« ~ Vvwf f uLint 1891 PEACHTREE RO J»lt A. .a f Hk pa .; TR. 6 6992 SUBSCRIBE TO THE GEORGIA BULLETIN 85.00 PER YEAR a * 1 to p. O. Box 11667 Northside Station Atlanta 5, Georgia N a m e M Address City State, fore God. He can only humble himself, and thank God who has so favored him. . . . "We tell you In all simplicity just what We feel: No circums tances, no event however it may honor Our humble person, can exalt Us or disturb the quiet of Our soul." Pope John paid tribute to Balzan— "that humble son of the working world." IN THE course of his address he emphasized points made in his Holy Thursday encyclical, Peace on Earth: Peace is an empty word unless based on truth, built on justice, enliven ed and completed by charity, and realized in liberty. He noted that "for the first time in the history of the Roman pontiffs," a prize for peace has been given to a pope. The Pope then referred to the Magnificat, the canticle in which the Blessed Virgin Mary ex pressed her wonder at the In carnation. Paraphrasing it, he said that God has regarded the humility of His servant. Then he added: "It is in humility that the Pope who speaks to you intends to pursue his service to men and to world peace." CBS PRESIDENT PAPAL ENVOY A group of Catholic mothers led by Mrs. Albert J. VanHoecke (left), registered their children for public school classes in the Kansas City suburb of Raytown. Mo., in protest against the Missouri legislature's refusal to permit parochial school students the use of public school bus transportation. AT NOTRE DAME Population Conference Scheduled For Summer NOTRE DAME, Ind -NC A conference of Catholic socio logists, theologians and other specialists will be held this summer at the University of Notre Dame to study the popula tion question. George N. Shuster, assistant to the president of the Univer sity, said the meeting is being planned as "an attempt to bring Parental Stress For TV-Radio WASHINGTON -(NC)--CBS Radio president Arthur Hull Hayes said here that parents have a "great responsibility" to help bring about better radio and television programs. While broadcasters operate under intense public scruntiny, Hayes said, "far too little has been said under the responsi bility of the audience." "THERE is a lot of worth while programing right now on radio and TV, but there could be more. In large part the power to accomplish this is yours, as parents and teachers," he told nearly 500 persons at the annual parent-daughter week end at Dunbarton College here (May 12). His daughter, Mary Anne, is a senior at the Holy Cross Sisters’ school. Hayes deplored the fact that a recent broadcast interview with former President Eisen hower had one-quarter of the audience of a crime show on the air at the same time. Like wise, he said, a mystery thriller had twice the audience of a re cent drama based on the life of Disraeli, and a western had three times the audience of a program on New York's Lin coln Center performing arts. Pastor Gives Parish Slip BOSTON, (NC) — This time Father Roland Abi-Jaoude made It. He was on his way by pla ie back to Lebanon before nis 2,000-member Syro Maronite Rite parish of Our Lady of the Cedars of Lebanon were aware he had departed. This time the 32-year-old priest didn't tip his plans in ad vance. A week earlier the By zantine Rite priest had let It be known he was going back to Le banon—had been ordered home by Bishop Augustin Farah of Tarabulus to take charge of a high school. ON THE day of his original departure 200 of his parish ioners, fearing his departure would mean the end of their 63-year-old parish, crowded Into his residence and would not let him leave. Four days later Father Abi- Jaoude quietly he obtained his passport from the Lebanese consul and boarded his plane. Paul K. Handy, the consul, said: "It was the only way he could do it." Father Abi-Jaoude came here three years ago and has been studying at Boston College. "How much encouragement have you given us for the good things we do?" asked Hayes. "AS PARENTS," he contin ued, "when did you last call your children’s attention to a particular broadcast? As teach ers, do you use radio and tele vision programs for classroom assignment and discussion?" The CBS executive said broadcasters have a responsi bility "to put before you the full range of many different kinds of programs, but the choices are to you." "At this point, the responsi bility of parents and future parents begins," he said. "It is to make sure that children are exposed to the good things which radio and television of fer. "In doing so you help to create your children’s tastes and to enrich their lives. You also help to determine the kind of broadcasting we will have tomorrow." HAYES noted that broadcast ing is dependent on advertising and "to attract advertisers, we must first attract audiences." "A broadcaster who puts on programs to which no one listens soon finds himself put ting on no programs at all,” he said. "The broadcaster pro poses but the audience, which disposes, has far greater power—and therefore respon sibility—than you may have imagine." together sociologists, moral theologians, etc., to consider various aspects of the (popula tion) situation." SHUSTER said he has "no idea what will come out of It." He said no date has been set for the meeting and no final program has been worked out. These and other details will be made public later, he said. At the same time, Shuster confirmed that an off-the-re- cord meeting of anthropo logists, sociologists and theo logians was held at the univer sity late last year to discuss the population issue. He described that meeting, held shortly before Christmas as an "exchange of views about purely academic problems" and said it did "nothing except to explore the question, how could a university like Notre Dame engage in population studies?” NO conclusions were reached at the pre-Christmas meeting, Shuster said. News of the pre-Christmas meeting at Notre Dame and the conference plannedforthe sum mer first became public in Washington D.C., in reports emanating from ameetingthere of the Planned Parenthood Fed eration May 8. Donald B. Straus, chairman of the federation, was quoted as denying that the federation is an "anti-Catholic” organization. "We are cooperating with Ca tholics on many fronts," he was quoted as saying. THE REPORTS also stated that representatives of the Planned Parenthood Federation had attended last year's meet ing at Notre Dame. Commenting on this, Shuster said "it is not correct to say that any bridge is being build between the Planned Parent hood Federation and the Ca tholic Church." He said last year’s meeting at Notre Dame "had absolute ly nothing to do with" the Plan ned Parenthood Federation as such, although "one or two people affiliated with Planned Parenthood were there." NOTRE Dame University has had no relationship with the Planned Parenthood Federation as an organization "and doesn't intend to have any," he said. He added, however, that this "doesn't mean we don’t asso ciate with competent people who happen to be associated with Planned Parenthood." Schuster said Notre Dame's interest in population questions lies in three specific areas: 1) biological research, since its biology department has a major research program in ecology; 2) social sciences and demography; and 3) population issues as they relate to con ditions in Latin America. BOY SCOUT Troop #35, St. Joseph’s Home Washington, Georgia took part in a camporee in which 17 troops of the Augusta area participated. Under the leadership of Scoutmaster Jack Connell, Troop 35 copped second place for the total number of points earn ed for various scout activities. To Editor TO THE EDITOR: May I ask the privilege of replying to the published "let ter to the Editor" of Leo E. Reichert, Jr. PhD. of May 2, Georgia Bulletin. Contrary to the opinion ex pressed in this letter, there are many, many Catholics who are indeed grateful that Mr. Sherry has been named manag ing editor of The Georgia Bul letin. There are also many "separated brethren" (to use Pope John's words) such as I, who are gratified to read clear ly and unmistakably, the re flection of the thinking and reasoning of the "Good Shep herd" in Rome. The whole tone and manner expressed on the pages of the paper have given heart to those of us who long for more under standing, more graciousness, more expressions of charity on the part of all Christians to each other. If it is distasteful and insult ing to Leo E. Reichert, Jr. PhD. to consider the various columns, editorials and com ments of Mr. Sherry, then perhaps it behooves him (Rei chert) to examine his heart objectively and impassionately, to look into it directly, and to truthfully question his con science as a Christian. I, for one, would like the opportunity of greeting iMr. Sherry personally and thanking him for his enlightened view point. JEAN LOMBARDI EPISCOPALIAN AND ECUMENICIST ATLANTA, 6 Magr Edwin M. K i n c h, O.S.M., & native of Portland. Ore., has been named the first Apostolic Prefect of Ingwavuma, Zululand. South Africa. Ordained in 1945, he was a member of the first American Servlte Fathers’ group to serve among the Zulu people of the Ingwavu ma prefecture. Individuals Peace Key, UN Is Told CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE want the nations to build to gether the peace of the world, we must as soon as possible free the way and escape from this impasse. . .The people do not have a choice: Either they choose the armaments race with, as the end of this rival ry, the permanent risk of col lective nuclear suicide; or they select the progressive trust which alone can engender the trust necessary to the stabi lity of peace. "But this is only the elim ination of an obstacle. A true collaboration between peoples demands a positive converging effort. If the nightmare of the armaments race disappears from the horizon, almost unli mited possibilities of fruitful collaboration will present them selves. We can then begin to solve. . .the principal social problem of our time. . .that of our time. . .that of the de veloping countries." THE CARDINAL said "it Is necessary to break, at any price the vicious circle which results in men being poor thr ough the greater part of the world because they produce too little, and produce too little be cause they are too poor to pro duce more." Pacem in Terris points out, the Cardinal stated, that "the hour has come for a vast col lective movement of aid and of effective solidarity at the scale of our needs." "But in order that this aid may be valid and accepted," the Cardinal added, "the ency clical asserts an essential con dition: ‘that this indispensable aid be given with full respect for the liberty of the develop ing peoples." "THE extent of these problems to be resolved is, of itself," the Cardinal continued, "an invitation to constitute a public authority of worldwide scope, it being always under stood that the principle of ‘sub sidiarity’ must control the re lations of this world authority with the governments of states and that the latter retain, with in their own sphere, the exer cise of their responsibilities." The Cardinal said that the Pope's fourth appeal—for col laboration among men despite their ideological differences— means "it is not necessary to identify the flesh and bones men with whom we come in con tact according to the abstract logic of the ideologies they pro fess." In a question period follow ing his talk, the Cardinal was asked if by his reference to a "supranational power," he or the Pope meant an organization other than the U. N. He replied: "Pope John speaks clearly in the encycli cal of the U. N. There could be progress in the U. N. it self, and the U. N. itself might develop into another organizat ion. We are here taking a first step. We are by no means at the end of the road." Tbt Holy Fatbtr i Miaou Aid fir tbt Oritntal Cbunb LEBANON: A TREE DIES The other day one of the famed CEDARS OF LEBANON died. Obituary notices appeared In four Middle East news papers . . , Why? Because these trees are historical and legendary, deeply rooted in the life and hills of Bible lands . . . The Prophet Ezechia! spoke of them, as did the Psalms, Cjj Solomon used them for building the “ mm \ / « Temple . . . Cleopatra and St. Helen ordered them, one for her royal barge, the other for the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In modern times, their wood was used in Sacre Coeur Basil ica, Paris . . . Now there are just 100 left, with only a dozen or so of ancient origin. Not far from the famed trees, some Lebanese laboring people are trying valiantly to build a church for their parish, BEIT-EID, In the Maronite diocese of SABRA ... No longer, they hope, must they assist at Maaa In their all-too-small building where in winter many had to stand outside. Through their Bishop and parish priest they aik us to aid them to the amount of $3,000, enough to pay for materials like cement and iron which must be purchased. . . . Will you help? THUNDER OVER JORDAN Jordan is much In the news today. Political unrest, plans to divert the waters of the Jordan River into the Negev, the find ing of the oldest theater of the Middle East In the “rose red city of Petra”—and In the midst of these happenings, the con tinuing, sad, never-solved problem of the PALESTINE REFU GEES . . . They fled their homes in the 1948 Isracl-Arab war and were taken into hospitals and convents, orphanages and schools. Temporary quarters were built . . . Their needs were many and are still enormous. Will you help with a $10 FOOD PACKAGE which will keep a family for a month? . . . And for tha Bedouins, blankets are needed which cost $2 . . . Re member them now 1 TAKING A CHANCE ON LOVE Billy P., a nine-year-old from Las Vegas, Nevada, writes us: 1 have a great desire to help orphans ... I receive a dollar a month for my chores and I would like to give It to the orphans." You know, Billy, the priests and sisters in the Middle East will be encouraged by your generosity. They too are helping orphans ... We have our ORPHANS’ BREAD CLUB to help these children. Your monthly sacrifice of $1 and a prayer kaepi It going! KINDLY SEND US YOUR MASS OFFERINGS. They are •ften the sole support of the 15,000 priests under our care In the 18 Middle East and Near East countries. ADOPTING A SEMINARIAN OR NOVICE? This means paying the cost of their training. A seminarian needs $100 a year for six years, a ilster-to-be needs S150 a year for two years. We have many names such as PIETRO TEAME and BERNARDO TESFAL, studying with the Cistercians in Italy for missionary work. Also SISTERS BERNARDINA AND MIRCITTA of the Sisters of the Destitute In Alwaye, India. PLEASE REMEMBER US IN YOUR WILL. Our title: THB CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION. Dear Monsign or: »neio>ed Bad fee Name IIMHttltlMlllMMti Ion* ... .State *£]52ear £as t Qlissionsi^ ^ FRANCIS CARDINAL SMUMAN, President Mifr. Joseph T. Ryee, Mm u*' y CATHOUC ASSOCIATION 410 Uxington Avc. of 46th St. Ntw York 17, N. Y,