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SOME EXCEPTIONS
Court Prayer Ban
Is Widely Obeyed
WASHINGTON, (NC)—Public
schools opened this month with
the vast majority obeying the
U. S. Supreme Court's ban on
conducted religious exercises.
However, in some states and a
few rural areas, traditional
opening exercises of Bible rea
ding or recitation of the Lord's
Prayer continued, despite the
court's decision that this is un
constitutional, a spot check
shows.
REFUSAL to implement the
court's decision apparently was
expected by the tribunal, judg
ing from a recent statement of
the author of the June 17 dec
ision.
Associate Justice Tom C.
Clark told a Chicago television
audience on August 13 some
areas probably would not "re
spect the opinion” and further
challenges would reach the high
court.
IN MANY areas where die ex
ercises were traditional, chie
fly the East and the South, ef
forts were made to find subst
itutes. accepted alternative. In
at least one city, however, it was
proposed that pupils pray toge
ther before class begins offi
cially. In a few places, sc
hool boards planned to launch
courses of study on world rel
igions.
THE FOURTH stanza of the
National Anthem was prominent
in the efforts to find a substi
tute. The stanza, addressed to
“our fathers’ God,*' is beingus-
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ed in some places, but is spec
ifically banned as a devotion
al exercise in others, includ
ing major states such as New
York and Illinois.
Defiance or ignoring of the
court's decision is most wide
spread in the South. Alabama,
Tennessee, Georgia, South Car
olina and Florida have adopted
a hands-off policy on the dec
ision.
IN ALABAMA, Gov. George
Wallace has vowed to read the
Bible himself in public schools
in defiance of the court's rul
ing. In addition, the State Bo
ard of Education adopted a reso
lution making Bible reading
compulsory in schools.
Officials of all New England
states have instructed schools
that the traditional devotional
practices must be stopped, with
the exception of Connecticut
which has held they could con
tinue at the discretion of die
teacher.
IN DELAWARE, the exer
cises continued because of an
opinion by State Atty. Gen. Da
vid Buckson that the court's
decision affected only the sta
tes involved in the cases on
which the high court made its
ruling.
He has been challenged in
court by the American Civil
Liberties Union and state of
ficials conceded that the ACLU
will be successful.However in
the meantime, prayers and
Bible reading are continuing.
IN ILLINOIS, Gov. Otto Ker-
ner vetoed a bill to permit
recitation of the National Ant
hem’s fourth stanza. He said
the bill proposed to use the
stanza to defy the court.
In New Jersey, an announce
ment by Assistant Education
Commissioner Eric Groezinger
was interpreted to mean that
school children can continue to
recite the Lord’s Prayer—until
someone complains.
IN PENNSYLVANIA, State
Atty. Gen. Walter E. Alessan-
droni ruled out the traditional
religious exercises. But he sug
gested substitutes, including
readings from “great litera
ture” and presentation of “in
spirational music.*'
In Baltimore, Md., the city
solicitor, Francis B. Bruch,
announced plans for the for
mation of a new organization,
Constitutional Prayer Amend
ment, Inc.,*’ to press for an
amendment to permit “tradit
ional and devotional exercises”
in public schools.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3
NONPARTISAN
ARCHBISHOP PAUL J. Haiiinan Is shown here installing Mrs,
Edward P. Faust as president of the Atlanta Council of Catho
lic Women. The Archbishop is assisted, at his right, by the
Very Rev. John P. McDonough, Spiritual Moderator of the
ACCW Convention which elected Mrs, Faust.
OBSCENITY RULING
Trash Same
Rights As ‘Art’
QUEENS, N. Y., (NC)-A
sweeping new definition of what
constitues pornography may
result from a decision handed
down here by g justice of the
State Supreme Court.
IN DISMISSING Indictments
against three Queens distribu
ting concerns and seven execu
tives accused of selling obs
cene literature, Justice J. Er
win Shapiro found that 25 books
named in the indictments were
“poor writings, bad in taste,
profane, offensive, disgusting
and plain unvarnished trash.”
But he also found that such
novels “have a place in our
society” and that the books
did not exceed the “present
critical point in the compro
mise between candor and shame
at which the community has
arrived,” the obscenity test set
down a half century ago by
the late Judge Learned Hand.
SINCE 1957 when U.S. Su
preme Court Justice William
J. Brennen defined obscenity
as "utterly without redeeming
social values,” courts have
tended to rule that any book
of literary value cannot be ob
scene, regardless of its con
tents.
In defending his position that
there was a place in society
for such writings, Justice Sha
piro wrote:
"There are those who, be
cause of lack of education, the
ENGLISH SECTION
meanness of their social exis
tence or mental insufficiency,
cannot cope with anything
better. Slick paper confessions,
pulp adventure and’comicbook’
type of magazine provide them
with an escape from reality,”
IN FINDING that the books
did not go beyond the mores of
the times, the Justice wrote:
"In an era of bikinis whicbre-
vealed more than they conceal;
of cinemas, which show females
swimming in the nude—one
must conclude that these books
do not constitute hard-core por
nography. Coarse they are, but
so is much in our civilization.*'
Attorneys who were apprised
of the ruling said they expected
it would be used in the future
to try and extend the U.S. Su
preme Court's "social value”
test to include works that lack
critical acclaim but that pro
vide diversion for many people.
FRANK D. O'Connor, Queens’
Dsitrict Attorney, called the
works "cesspool” literature
and maintained that Justice Sah-
piro had misread the com
munity’s position on what is
acceptable and that he should
not have taken it on himself
to determine the obscenity of
the books in the first place.
"That's a community ques
tion,” O'Connor stated, “and
the community should have an
opportunity to express its will
through a jury,” He said the
case would be appealed.
American Named
To Council Press
VATICAN CITY, (NC)—Fath
er Edward L. Heston, C.S.C,
56, American-born procurator
general in Rome for the Holy
Cross Fathers, has been nam
ed head of the English-language
section of the press office for
the Second Vatican Council.
He succeeds in this post
Msgr. James I. Tucek, head of
the Rome bureau of the N.C.-
W.C. News Service, who was
the ecumenical council’s Eng
lish-language press officer thr-
Chamblee Girl
At Study Forum
St, Ambrose College, locat
ed in this Mississippi Valley
city, was the scene of the Fourth
Annual Study Week ontheApos-
tolate from August 19 to 23.
The Study Week consisted of
three separate programs: one
for Clergy, Religious and Lay
Adults; a second one for Col
lege, Nursing Students and
Young Workers and a third one
for High School Students. The
theme of the general program
was "Leaven, Light and Salt.”
Chairman of the Study Week
was the Reverend Louis M.
Colonnese, director of the Of
fice of the Lay Apostolate, Da
venport, Iowa.
oughout the first session last
fall.
A NATIVE of Ravenna, 0„
Father Heston is one of the of
ficial experts of the council.
During the first session he al
so served as chairman of the
press panel established under
the aegis of the U.S. Bishops,
as assistant procurator general
of the Congregation of Holy
Cross from 1938 to 1940, and
from 1942 to 1947 was on the
staff of the Apostolic Delega
tion in Washington. He became
his congregation's procurator
general in 1950, and since then
has served as a consultor to
the Sacred Congregation of Re
ligious.
A member of the Canon Law
Soceity of America, Father
Heston has written extensively
in many fields. Among his books
are 'The Holy See at Work,”
and 'The Priest of the
Fathers.”
Auxiliary Install
Mrs. Matthew J. Dwyer, rep
resenting the Georgia State
Council on Auxiliaries, will in
stall the officers of the new St.
Joseph’s Auxiliary at St. Jo
seph’s Hospital in Savannah, on
November 12. This will be the
41st hospital auxiliary in the
State of Georgia.
Gov’t Spending Way Up
On Reproduction Study
WASHINGTON, (NC)—A new
government survey on repro
duction research shows many
more projects getting much
more money than did a preli
minary report last year.
The Federal government is
far and away the largest backer
of “research on reproduction
related to birth and population
control,” according to the re
port. Federal agencies are pro
viding $5.2 million, some 64
per cent of the total, to aid
projects listed.
BOTH SURVEYS were pre
pared by the National Insti
tutes of Health, research arm
of the Public Health Service
and both reports stress that
the development of improved
birth control techniques “is
not an objective toward which
the NIH has a planned effort.”
An introduction to the report
says the document "neither ad
vocates nor condemns birth
control.”
IT ADCS that NIH's concern
is with basic research in re
production rather than birth
control as such, even though
the two “overlap considerab- _
ly'\
When the preliminary report
was made public last Decem
ber 29, Msgr. John C. Knott,
director of the Family Life
Bureau, National Catholic Wel
fare Conference, praised NIH
for supporting reproduction re
sources of support for research
potentially related to birth con
trol include the Population
Council, the Ford Foundation
and the U, S. pharmaceutical
industry.
Figures given for these sour
ces are: the Population Coun
cil 106.9 projects and $1,357,-
503; the Ford Foundation, 12
projects and $595,878; and the
domestic pharmaceutical in
dustry, 69.1 projects and$ 144,-
368.
MSGR. KNOTT said NIH
"should be encouraged to con
tinue and intensify, if possible,
its support of continued basic
research projects’* in this area.
“Much good could come from
such basic research. The fact
that such information could be
used for what we, as Catholics,
would consider immoral pur
poses should not prevent Us
from supporting those who are
seeking the truth,” the NCWC
official said.
The dollar value of support by
the pharmaceutical houses is
probably higher than the figure
given, since the report notes
that NIH was not informed of
the “magnitude of support” for
some of the projects they aid.
PRIEST VS POLITICIAN
La. Integration
Struggle On TV
NEW YORK (RNS)-The str
uggle between Louisiana polit
ical boss Leander Perez and
Father Christopher Schneider,
O. F. M,, over parochial sc
hool integration in a Mississippi
delta town will be televised Sept.
18 over CBS Reports, a weekly
network program.
Entitled “The Priest and the
Politician,” the program will
explore the efforts of Father
Schneider ot integrate the Bu-
ras, La., school over Mr. Pe
rez's resolute opposition.
THE SCHOOL, Our Lady of
Good Harbor, was damaged
by an explosion recently, just
a few days before it was to re
open for the fall semester. Ar-
chbisop John P. Cody of New
Orleans termed the blast "an
outrage that must be deplored
Racial Reprints
Washington, (ncj — The
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference has published the U.S.
Bishop's recent joint pastoral
letter on racial harmony. The
reprints are priced at $1.25
per hundred and $10 per thou
sand and are available from
the NCWC at 1312 Massa
chusetts Avenue, N. W„ Wash
ington 5, D. C.
by every right-thinking per
son.” He ordered the school
closed “to protect the lives of
the priests, sisters and chil
dren.”)
Mr, Perez, an avowed segre
gationist, was excommunicated
last year when he opposed the
order of Archbishop Joseph F.
Rummel to integrate parochial
schools throughout the arch
diocese.
While chronicling his
defiance of the Church, the tel
ecast also will depict Mr, Pe
rez's one-man rule for 40 ye
ars over the political, econo
mic and social life of Plaque
mines Parish (County) in Loui
siana.
Despite the opposition of Mr.
Perez, Father Schneider con
tinued with integration plans for
Our Lady of Good Harbor sch
ool. The school was boycotted
by white pupils last year.
Arthur J. Conley, (above) pre
sident of the Sodality Congress
of the Lay Apostolate (SCLA)
held in New York last week.
More than 2,000 professional
men and women and collegians
attended. This year the SCLA
will celebrate its 400th anniver
sary. There are 8,000,000 soda-
lists in the world; 1.9 million
in die United States.
‘Hud’ Gets
Award
VENICE, Italy (RNS) —
“Hud,” an American made pic
ture starring Paul Newman, won
the Roman Catholic Film Of
fice award at the Venice Film
Festival here.
The movie also was given the
Eric Johnston Award, named af
ter the late president of the Mo
tion!,. Picture Association of
America. In both cases the film
was cited for its "human val
ues.”
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