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Newspaper Page Text1 GEORGIA PINES “The Wandering Jew” BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN I asked him how he would best characterize himself and he said, “I guess, Father, you might call me'The Wandering Jew.” One day last week I noticed in the Atlanta newspaper that Charlie Leb, owner of one of Atlanta’s most famous restaurants was going to celebrate his birthday by donating the day’s re ceipts to the Perpetual Help Cancer Home. Whatever anyone would eat on that day, no bill would be given but when the patron was leaving they were asked to drop a donation in a large glass bottle which was sitting on top of the cash ier’s desk. This year Charlie Leb’s favorite charity was the Dominican Sister’s Cancer Home located on Washington Street in southwest Atlanta. I understand that Charlie Leb celebrates his birthday every year in this fashion, and he seems really to enjoy it. When I entered the restaurant located on Forsyth and Luckie streets I was met by Charlie Leb’s wife who seated me in the first booth. Before my order was taken (Spaghetti) Charlie him self appeared and expressed his gratitude for my coming, and this is when the interview took place. I found the story so interesting that I thought readers of Georgia Pines might enjoy it as well. CHARLIE Leb was born in Russia, the son of noble parents. When a persecution of the Jews took plate in that country the whole family emi grated to Paris. His father and sister went a- head of the family to the "new world” and much to their dismay they arrived in San Francisco in 1905 (the year of the big earthquake) on a cattle boat. Charlie’s father obtained employment on a ferry boat plying between Frisco and Oakland. W ith a smile, the restaurant properieter mused that he had a tough time working on this boat. He just couldn’t speak any English. At the age of five Charlie Leb arrived in Connecticut. By this time his father had raised enough money to pay for the passage of the re mainder of the family. Charlie Leb stayed in Connecticut , until 1919 and then he began roaming around the country working at various jobs. THE adopted Atlantan had a fling at show bus iness and for 14 years he operated a hotel in Miami. This was followed by a business venture in Jacksonville which today still bears his name, Leb’s. Fourteen years ago Charlie Leb arrived in Atlanta and it looks like he is here to stay. The most interesting part of this "day of charity” was a letter from a Chicago lawyer, Charles Edward Newton, which was posted on the front door of the restaurant. Mr. Newton was the lawyer for another Chicagoian, Cecelia Sch roder and in her name he sent a check for one thousand dollars. It seems that Mr. Newton was in Atlanta recently visiting his married daughter and it was on this trip that he learned of Charlie Leb’s practice and so in the name of his client he made this generous donation. CHARLIE Leb’s claim to running a restaurant does not include his mastery of the domestic culin ary department though. Amusingly he confessed that he never goes into the kitchen. "I just can’t stand the sight of raw meat,” he said. But then he quickly added, "when it comes out of the kit chen though, I know whether the steak is good or bad by just looking at it.” His nephew, Nor man, is boss in the kitchen. Members of the Father Thomas O’Reilly Cou ncil, K of C, were on hand to meet the patrons during the day long charity venture which ran into the wee hours of the morning. Bob Lowe Sr., an Atlanta chef, baked the birthday cake. And good it was. Charlie Leb’s interest in the Cancer Home was more than just speculative Both of his parents died with the dread disease. QUESTION BOX What About Judas? BY MONSIGNOR J.D. CONWAY Q. WOULD YOU GIVE ME A THUMBNAIL SKETCH OF ALL THAT IS KNOWN ABOUT JUDAS IS CARIOT? A. He was one of those Twelve Apostles cho sen by Jesus to be His closest companions, the foundation of His Church, and the heralds oi His Kingdom. He is named last on the list by Matthew (10,4), Mark (3, 19) and Luke (6, 16). Matthew and Mark introduced us to him in almost identical words, "Judas Iscariot, who also bet rayed him.” Luke varies the wording slightly: "Judas Is- p—r r?sm cariot » who turned traitor.” <*»***' Right from the beginning, in reading the Gospels, we know what to expect from him, but I am sure that the eleven who were his companions had no reason to suspect him at the time he was chosen. Apparently his dominant vice of avarice, and maybe disappointment in the type of Kingdom Jesus was establishing, led him step by step towards his failure. That word Iscariot has caused scholars trou ble. it is usually considered the name of the town from which Judas came, a town mentioned by Joshua (15, 25) as belonging to the tribe of Judah, but otherwise not identified. I find various spellings of it: "Kerioth-hezron (that isHazor),” Carioth, and Qerivoth. Some scholars have suggested that Iscario is from an Aramaic word meaning "of false hood, or betrayal.” It w ould thus be a name whicl the Apostles and early Christians gave him aftei lie had become a traitor, and the text of Matthe\ "ould read ", . , . and Judas, the man of false hood, who betrayed Him.” This seems rather probable until we come to John (6, 72) where it would seem, in spite of the Confraternity translation, that Judas got his name from his father, Simon the Iscariot, and ue have no reason in the world to believe that Simon was a man of falsehood or betrayal. , VVe next hear of judas at the Last Supper when Jesus told His Apostles that one of them would soon betray Him. And they began to ask each other, and to ask the Master, which one it was. And when Judas asked, Jesus indicated to him quietly that he was the one: it would seem that Judas had already made his arrangements with the chief priests to betray Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, and was watching for an op portunity to earn his monev (Matt. 26, U-16) Sr * J°hn indicates that Jesus let him know’ at the Last Supper that Judas was the traitor^ hV giving the Iscariot a morsel of food. He im-1 plies that it was only then that Judas made his final decision, and Jesus know ing it, told him to get it over with, "What thou dost, do quickly.” (John 13, 21- 30). When Judas left the Last Supper, most oi the others supposed that he was going out to make some purchases. Then there is the sad scene of the garden of Gethsemano, when Judas came with the sol diers and the servants of the chief priests, and betrayed his Master with a fake kiss of love. The last thing we know about Judas is that he became frantic when he saw Jesus condem ned, took this money back to the high priests, and when they wouldn’t accept it, threw it into the temple. Then he went away and hanged him self with a halter (Matt. 26, 3-5). The chief priests couldn’t put his blood money into the temple treasury, so they used it to buy a burial ground for paupers, called Hacel- dema, the Field of Blood. (St. Peter gives us the impression (Acts 1, 18) that Judas bought the field before he hanged himself). The remaining Apostles then elected Matthias to replace Judas as one of the Twelve. Q. RECENTLY I READ AN ARTICLE, "RE VISION OF MARRIAGE LAWS." IT STATED THAT WHEN CATHOLICS ENTER MARRIAGE WITH NON-CATHOLICS BEFORE A MINISTER, A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, OR OTHER QUAL IFIED CIVIL OFFICIAL, THEIR MARRAGE IS NULL AND VOID BEFORE THE CHURCH. ARE THESE MARRIAGES ALSO CONSIDERED NULL AND VOID FOR THE NON-CATHOLICS? A. You cannot have a marriage which is valid for the husband but not for the wife, or vice versa. If a marriage is null for a Catholic husband it is also null for his non-Catholic wife. The Church law affects the Catholic party directly, ami concerns the non-Catholic only in directly because it limits his Catholic part ner’s ability to enter a valid marriage contract. The Catholic can marry validly only before a priest. If neither party to die marriage has ever been Catholic the Church is not concerned with their manner of contracting marriage. Q. HOW DOES ONE CONFESS LACK OF RESIG NATION, ABSENCE OF TRANQUILITY? A. Just like that. But remember that such things are not serious sins until they become open re bellion. They are problems, which may lead us to minor sins, and with which we need God’s help and maybe that of the confessor. The ultimate remedy is through God’s love and grace, and our confidence in His personal concern for us. How much better than the sparrows or the lilies of the field are we for whom Jesus died. No greater love has any man .. .1 Q. CAN A WOMAN WHO HAS REPENTED SINCERELY OF HER SINFUL LIFE WITH A MARRIED MAN, WHO HAS BEEN TO CONFESS ION AND RECEIVED ABSOLUTION, STILL HAVE AN AFFECTION FOR THE MAN—NEVER SEEING HIM—WITHOUT OFFENDING GOD? CAN THIS WOMAN PRAY FOR THIS MAN, THOUGH HE IS A PROTESTANT? A. I imagine that she cannot stifle her affect ion without choking herself. She should be sensi bly prudent about it, not moon over it as a martyr, not gloat over it until she sins again through memory' and desire, not enshrine it amid dreams, nor dally with it until it shakes her new resolution. Let it wear off as gently as possible. Certainly she can pray for him, but she must be careful that her prayers do not become pious enticements to thinking about him — affection ately. THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5 Saints in Black and White ST. THERESA OF USIEUX 47 A 3 / ft tx <?? TO CUBAN REFUGEES Catholic, Protestant Relief Services Cooperate on Aid ACROSS 63. Cereal seeds 65. Ferber and Millay 26 She Entered . . . 28. Being 1. Hovel 67. Person presenting a 29. Trust 4. Hardshelled mollusk check for payment 31. World War II Agency 8. Exclude 71. Baltic nver 32. Created 11. Small Flounder 74. Lethargy 34. Cow Sounds 14. Any (dialect) 77. Head 35. At Her Death She Was 15. 1 .... 1 saw, 1 conquered 78. Pope She Visited Very .. . 79. Permit 37. Ditches 16. Famous for coffee 81. Yield 38. Overhanging Window 17. Civil War President 84. Article 39. 52 in the year 18. Station 85. Even (Poet.) 40. Clip 19 Fare 86. Some 41. Great (Latin) 20. Chemical suffix 87. Baseball Team 42. Beside 21. The English like it 88. Soldiers in World War 1 1 44. Tine 22. Become weary 89. Term used in tennis 47. The Little . . . 24. Water scorpion 90. Gallon 49. Tower 26. Composed 91. Egyptian unit of 52. Dripped (Scot) 27. Murderer measure 54. Dull 30. Scent 92. Seniors 57. Japanese Coin 33. Foe DOWN 59. Rest 36. Small Finch 1. Large numbers 62. Poetic meter 40. Small (Scot) 2. Preposition 64. 40 winks 43. Single Masted Boat 3. The Pope Wears It 66. Thus 45. Regard with wonder 4. Catholic Lay Group 68. New Zealand trees 46. Fifty per cent 5. Burmese native 69. Anaesthetic 46. Belonging to you 6. So be it 1 70. Shcals 50. ... meenie 7. Distribute 71. True olives 51. Type of antiseptics 8. Thorny bushes 72. Act 53. Fillet 9. Assist 73. Ages 55. Vegetable 10. Fish Eggs 75. Friar 56. Irks 11. Facts 76. Biblical name 58. Distort 12. Son of Adam 79. Linger 60. Solicitors at Law 13. Shank of an anchor 80. Alfonso's queen 61. its pollen causes 23. Scrutinize 82. Omega hayfever 25. A State (Abbr) 83. Affirmative vote ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS PUZZLE PAGE 7 NEW YORK (RNS) — Pro testant and Catholic relief agen cies have agreed to a coopera tive plan designed to accelerate the movement of Cuban refugees out of Miami, Fla., to other parts of the country. The agreement grew out of a situation that found the Pro testant relief operation with a scarcity of resettleable Cubans and an abundance of available home and job opportunities. For Catholics, the opposite factors prevailed. JOINING forces to alleviate the resettlement problem are Catholic Relief Services and Church World Service. CWS, the overseas relief and rehabi litation agency for 27 Protes tant denominations in the U.S., is a department of the National Council of Churches. Announcing the agreement, the Rev. John W. Schauer, CWS Immigration Services director, said the Protestant agency’s large backlog of placement op portunities will be made avail able to refugees registered with Catholic Relief Services. The mass exodus of Cubans from the Castro regime reached a total of 161,941 at the end of March this year. Of that num ber, some 60,000 have been re settled through a variety of emergency relief committees, ARNOLD VIEWING The Image Of Freud BY JAMES W. ARNOLD Why did Sigmund Freud really invent psycho analysis? According to John Huston’s brooding film biography (called simply, "Freud”), it may have been Oedipal revenge on his own father. Or more simply yet, pure sexual obsession. The image of Freud, at any rate, is wound in a Freudian shroud. This is, oddly, the main dif ficulty with this rare picture about one genius (Freud) made by another (Huston, one of the handful of great American dir ectors). Because of subtleties of tone, emphasis and charact erization, the great man seems diminished from the giant he was. As I told you, Martha (the uninitiated viewer says smug ly), the man was not quite there. Huston’s Freud is a gentle young man (played with shy smile and disarming restraint by Mont gomery Clift). He has few of the real Freud’s more bothersome traits- the closest he gets to atheism is the reasonable "In science, there is nothing holy but the truth.” He is modest, brave, compassionate. HIS THEORY that childhood sexual experience scars the will seems very close (as it is in actuality) to the Christian belief in the Fall and weakened human nature. "Every child,” he tells a patient, "is foredoomed to be a sinner.” "Then you were a monster, tool” she says. "No,” he answers: softly, "I was a child.” To Freud one was not only his brother’s keeper, but often his brother’s (daughter’s, son’s) trauma. Neurotic symptoms in one damage the other, and the one damaged goes on to more damage: so is sin and misery passed on, generation to generation. "My father was a criminal," says an angry patient. Freud replies; "I’m sure he suffered for what he did.” But time and the requirements of drama force the Wolfgang Reinhardt-Charles Kaufman script to involve the cinema Freud in only two major conflicts. In one, he searches out the roots of his ambiguous feelings toward his own father; in the other, he unravels the causes of an hys teria neurosis in a lovely patient (blonde Susannah York, impressively bizarre, involving such pro vocative movie material as suicide and prost itution. THE AUDIENCE, however, is thus encouraged to doubt Freud’s own mental balance, and steep ed in his interest in the apparently morbid and sensational. At the end, on what seems flimsy evidence and over the opposition of his wise colleague (an offbeat role for Larry Parks), actor Clift doggedly presents his views on child hood sexuality to a hooting aggregation of doct ors who closely resemble partisans of the New York Mets. The result Is 2 1/2 hours of cerebral cinema that passes like 20 minutes and a generally honest, if incomplete, portrayal of a primary thinker whose theories Christians have not always ad mired. But the movie never makes clear (rather, it fogs over) the over whelming importance of this man to the modern world. Director Huston, using himself as narrator (as he did in his magni ficent war documentary, "San Pietro”), tries to do it in words but fails to bring it off in pictures. Freud’s ghost has haunted Broadway and adult movies for a generation. Where once audiences left the theater whistling the music or discussing Ginger Rogers’ ball gown, they now emerge articulately debating the hero’s Oedipus complex or observing that, all along, the ingenue was hunting her misplaced Father Image. THE COMPLAINT has been that playwrights, over-interpreting the master, have cut the heart from drama by making their characters sick, helpless and irresponsible. Others have been ap palled at Freud’s obsession ( emphasized in the movie) with sexauality as "the one and only cause” of human action - a position most psych ologists now reject. Yet few men have opened so many doors for medical science - the discovery of the Uncons cious and its influence on human motivation, the therapeutic value of psychoanalytic insight, the import of early childhood experiences for adult life, the techniques of dream analysis and free association, and perhaps above all, the link between the normal and abnormal, a discovery that dispelled the ignorance and fear surround ing mental illness and restored a measure of dignity’ to the mentally sick. Huston doesn't quite get to all this, but con centrates on the dedicated Viennese doctor who insists on looking through the cellars of the human mind while others, preferring not to be distressed by facts, dance to Strauss in the ballroom. The hero is presecuted not only for looking, but for finding, much as the modern social scientist gets blamed for finding the poor, who would presumably cease to exist if they would only stop being discovered. THE HALLOWED cliches of the Great Scien tist movie are observed, at least in part: the idealism, the sacrifice, the complaining spouse, the discouragement, the scorn of old-fashioned colleagues for radical theories. (Often the cliches are true: the lives of scientists and saints are remarkably parallel, and in movies the two are hard to distinguish). But Huston aviods the worst: the gooey romance that has to be for saken, the gorgeous lady scientist, the death bed telegram of approval from the medical soci ety. Purely as film, "Freud” is brilliant, full of strikingly photographed dream sequences, virt uoso acting (especially a bit by Eric Portman as a skeptical neaurotic), often chilling suspense, and moody Victorian sets and exteriors. It's not as intellectual entertainment, but as tribute to an astounding man, that 'Freud* seems most in need of restorative therapy. CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS: For everyone: The Miracle Worker, To Kill a Mockinbird, Lawrence of Arabia. Sundays and Cybele, Long Day’s For connoisseurs: Journey into Night. Better than most: The Longest Day, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Mutiny on the Bounty’, Billy Budd, Days of Wine and Roses, A Child Is Waiting. friends and relatives and indi vidual initiative. MR SCHAUER reDorted that the Protestant relief activity has resettled almost 11,000 of the 13,103 Cubans who applied for assistance. The Catholic caseload, because of the pre dominance of that faith among the refugees, has totaled nearly 110,00 refugees, with some 35, 000 being resettled in other parts of the country. Under the agreement, the CWS official said, the CRS or ganization in Miami "will ex plain the meaning of the joint interreligious action to the Cu bans still on their rolls await ing placement.” "Inherent in the agreement,” he added, "is the understanding that while Protestant groups will assume the responsibility’ for the refugees' initial welfare, including home and job place ment as well as related ser vices , they w ill not intrude in any way with regard to the re ligious belief and practices of these newcomers to our shores.” W HEN Catholic refugees ar rive at their destination under Protestant sponsorship, Mr. Schauer said, CRS will be noti fied so the local Catholic au thorities can be informed. It is expected that most re fugees will be transported by regular airline flights, the CW S official said, but in the case of large groups scheduled to be resettled in one area charter flights will be arranged. Griffin Parish has Missions A series of one week mis sions are being given in Sacred Heart Parish Griffin, Ga. and in the mission churches con nected with the parish. Rev. Thomas Tapp C.SS.R. an ex perienced missionary' from the mission band of New Smyrna, Florida is conducting the mis sions. The mission opened at St. Mary’s church, Jackson on May 5. On May 12 the mission open ed in Sacred Heart Church, Griffin, on the 19th a week’s mission is scheduled at Mc Donough. Morning Mass and the even ing services will be conducted on the second floor of the Ma sonic building near the court house square. On May 26 a week’s mission will open at St. John's Church in Thomas- ton. Rev. Raymond F. Govern C.SS.R. is pastor of Sacred Heart Church. Rev. Clement Tackney C.SS.R. is in charge of the mission church of St. George at Newnan, Ga. and the mission at McDonough. Rev. Richard W'agner C.SS.R. is in charge of the mission churches of St. Mary’s, Jackson and St. John’s at 'ITiomaston, Ga. Gets New Post Charles A. Bond, director of public relations and journalism instructor at Sacred Heart Col lege, Cullman, Ala., has been appointed to the faculty at Mary- grove College, Detroit, Mich, where he will teach journalism for the 1963-64 school year. During the summer months he will instruct journalism at the University of Detroit. God Love You MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN A WORD TO THE RICH: "He Who was rich became poor for our sakes that we might be come rich.” St. Paul applies these words to Our Lord, Who emp tied Himself of the glory of His Divinity to make us spiritually impoverished souls rich in His grace. And that same Lord made you rich in a material sense. Oh yes, you worked hard, or you guarded your inheritances, or you invested well, but the Lord is still the first cause of your wealth. "What have you that you have not RECIEVED?” lUs much easier for you to save your soul than a famished "fel lah in Egypt or a miserable cliff-dweller In a Latin America "favella.” You can give in Christ's Name. But the poor have to sink down into the depths of their souls and make an act of resignation and submission to God's Will. You say you are gene rous? You boast that you gave $100,000 to build a $3,000,000 church or $250,000 to construct a |library? Finel But are you really satisfied with ‘ what you have done, or were you "pressurized” by agents, public relations officials or drive "hatchetmen?" Did you give supernaturally or did you give naturally? Did it profit you for eternity or did it give you a bronze plaque in time? Measure your gifts with the rules that Our Lord lay down for giving: 1) Our Lord said we should give to the poor. When you are ready to make a distribution, "call in not the rich, but the poor.” He meant that you should not treat the disinherited of the world as though their need was a stigma but a claim. The needy catchists in Korea, the Impoverished priests of Rhodesia—these are the men to benefit in the light of the life to cornel 2) Our Lord said we should give anonymously: ".m-jq no t let thy* left hand know what thy right hand is doing.” Lvci notice now much more you give when you "suberibe” than when there is a collection? The ego wants satisfaction in the first instance. Be- gars always carry tin cups because the giver gets a ring of satis faction as he hears his coin jingle in the cup. But the Lord wants complete anonymity; He would have your gift take wings so you could never see where it went. 3) Our Lord said we should give to the poor because "they have nothing to repay thee with; for thou shalt be repaid at the resur rection of the poor.” The rich could repay you, honor you, put you on a board, but the poor can do nothing. Therefore, the Lord will have to reward you. The saddest words in Sacred Scripture are: "Thou hast already received thy reward.” Those of you who are rich and who want to give to the poor of the world so that no one else but the Vicar of Christ makes the distribution, write to me. I will reply personally to help you save souls. GOD LOVE YOU to S.B. for $70 "This is my first pay check from my first place of employment.” .. .to Mrs. A.B. for $2 "To help the poor of the world and beg prayers for a fallen-away son.” ...to E.B. for $20 "After graduation, several girls are spending a weekend at the shore. I would rather you use the money 1 had saved to send missionaries abroad.” .. .to a South Dakotan for $35 "For the Holy Father to use as he judges best.” Find out how an annuity with The Society for the Propagation of the Faith helps both you and the poor of the world. Send your requests for our pamphlet on annuities, including the date of your birth, to Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, New York. SHEEN COLUMN: Cut out 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 \ork Lx, N. Y. or your Diocesan Director. Rev. Harold J. Rainey, T.O. Box 12047, Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga.