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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- "Buy Your Slax From Max" MAX METZEL, Owntr MAX'S MEN'S SHOPS 3494 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. Chamblat Plaza Shopping Center Phone 431-1911 975 Peachtrea, N.E. Phone TR. 4-9582 — At 10th St. MOTOR HOTEL • TV A AIR OONDITIONINO • PAMOUI HI AMI SUPPST • IOS A HVIRAOl STATIONS • CQPAtl MAKAR. EACH fKQOM I IICIMI Alt' >Nt I /l (mm I Ailth m At t i.'.i 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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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.” JUHAN'S CLEANERS Expert * PeraonalUed Service Given to Every Garment Coming Into Our Plant lit N. Main St. PO. 1-4404 College Park. Ga. JOHN MARSHAL). UNIVERSITY Low • Li bora I Arts • Business Administration 105 Forrast Avo., N.K. JA. 3-8580 Day and Evanlng Clattas Fall Quarter Begins Monday,* September 16th MOTHER what pric^ag would you put on Dad - • # .. No amount of money could buy him? You’re so right! As a devoted father and ever-loving husband, he’s irreplaceable. 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