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Newspaper Page TextGEORGIA PINES HOUSING THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 6 Way Down East BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN Someone once cold me that a vacation ts a period of relaxation preceded by a period of anticipation and followed by a period of recuperation. At any rate, no matter how it adds up it seems that no one does any work either before, during or immediately following a vacation. All of this is by way of a preface to the fact that I have been on a vacation and as the dead line nears for Georgia Pines I find that I am pounding the machine feverishly and racking my brain in an attempt to come up with a column be fore I incur the wrath of the editor. Alas I find that this week it would be next to impossible to write about Georgia, since I have been out of the state for the last ten days. So I can tell the readers about where I have been and what I did. (At least I was in an auto bearing Georgia license plates.) I left this northeast Georgia ■ 23 and over to US 29 onaTues- Philadelphia where I saw Bishop After leaving Philadelphia, I drove up to West Point, N. Y. where the United States Military Academy is located. A young man from my parish received an appointment to the Academy last year and I wanted to see him. The Academy is located on die banks of the Hudson River just north of Bear Mountain Bridge. The next day (Thursday) I drove down to Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The very famous Oceanog raphic Institute is located there. It is at Woods Hole that I got the steamer out to Marthas Vineyard Island which lies about three miles oft the coast of Massachusetts. There on the beautiful island, which is reputed to have been first discovered by the Norsemen I stayed for the next five days. Incidentally, I saw two cars bearing Fulton County tags out there. The little towns of Oak Bluffs, Edgartown, and Vineyard Haven located on the island still preserve their originality and as yet have not suc cumbed to the "honkey-tonk" atmosphere so pre- valant in many beach resorts. I waited for the Labor Day crowd to leave lest I get In that rush, and on my return trip up from Cape Cod I discovered that many other people had the same idea that I had. Since I returned home I have been asked a dozen times if I saw die Cape's most important resi dent, JFK. The answer is no. I did go boating on Nantucket sound, but his home is surrounded by navy ships and the street in front of his house in Hyannis Port is blocked off. I stopped off in East Orange, New Jersey, and then drove over to Reading, Pennsylvania to visit a seminary professor who is now pastor of St. Peter's Church in Reading. We played golf that afternoon and I must confess that I was happy to lose rather than be accused by those "Yankee priests" of spending a great majority of my time on die links. We played with a priest from die coal regions who is the pastor of die man who was recently lost in the mine disaster at Hazeltown, Louis Bova. It was most interesting to get a first hand account of the incident and the bravery of the men along with the splended efforts of those engaged in the rescue operation. It rained all the way back to Georgia. Driving along in the rain and listening to the radio with so much tradgedy every time die news came on was enough to make the ride most uncomfortable. Then the sun broke through and about that time I saw the sign: Georgia State Liner It sure was good to be back home. Now for the recuperation. QUESTION BOX Annulment Hopes? BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY Q. IS IT TRUE THAT A HUSBAND CAN GET AN ANNULMENT IF HIS WIFE DOESN'T HAVE CHILDREN? IF THIS IS TRUE IT IS A TERRIBLE THING. are sung. The body is brought to the church for a brief ceremony, and then there are psalms and prayers to be said on the way to the cemetery and at the grave - if the priest goes to the ceme tery. The Ritual foresees that these ceremonies may all be completed at the church. A. It isn't true. Odds are about 50-50 that the failure to have children is the husband’s "fault" anyway. *** Q. MY SISTER-IN-LAW (WHO WAS NOT A CATHOLIC) DIED ABOUT A YEAR AGO; NOW ONE OF HER DAUGHTERS TELLS ME SHE HAS BEEN DREAMING ABOUT HER MOTHER. SHE HAS BEEN FRETTING ABOUT IT, SINCE TWO CATHOLIC GIRLS IN HER OFFICE TOLD HER THAT THIS MEANS HER MOTHER IS NOT REST ING IN PEACE, AND THE DAUGHTER PRAYS FOR HER ALL THE TIME AND WANTS HER TO HAvE PEACE. I TOLD HER THESE GIRLS SHOULD NEVER HAVE TOLD HER THIS. A. You are very charitable. I would be much rougher in my criticism of these superstitious and inconsiderate girls. Your niece dreams about her mother because she loved her, misses her, and is concerned about her spiritual welfare. Nothing morel She should keep praying for her mother, but calmly, with confidence in the love and mercy of God. *** Q. PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S BABY WAS LESS THAN A WEEK OLD WHEN HE DIED. THEY HAD AMASS. OUR BABY WAS 26 DAYS OLD. THE PRIEST REFUSED TO SAY A mass for him. the reason he GAVE: "IT JUST ISN’T DONE FOR ONE SO YOUNG." WE ARE NOT IN THE SAME INCOME BRACKET, BUTTHERE WAS NO ARGU MENT ABOUT THE REQUIRED STIPEND; WE COULD AND WOULD HAVE PAID IT. WE ARE NOT IN THE SAME PRESTIGE BRACKET, BUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CLAIMS IT DOESN'T SHOW FAVORITISM. IT IS NOT JUST THE PRESIDENT'S SON VERSUS OURS. SOME OF OUR NEIGHBORS HAVE HAD A MASS WHILE OTHERS DID NOT. OUR PRIEST CAME TO THE FUNERAL HOME, SAID SOME PRAYERS, AC COMPANIED US TO THE CEMETERY 6 MILES AW AY, AND BLESSED THE GRAVE. WHEN OUR FRIEND’S BABY DIED THEIR PRIEST DID NOT EVEN GO TO THE CEMETERY ALTHOUGH HE LIVED RIGHT NEXT TO IT. I CONSULTED THE UNDERTAKER, WHO IS NOT A CATHOLIC, .AND HE SAID: "THAT IS ONE THING I WISH THE CHURCH WOULD SETTLE. THERE IS NEVER SO MUCH CONFUSION FOR ME AT ANY FUNERAL .AS WHEN A CATHOLIC BABY DIES. THE PARENT'S’ W ISHES ARE NOT CONSIDER ED, .AND THE PRIESTS ARE SO INCONSISTENT WE NEVER KNOW WHAT THEY W ILL DECIDE TO DO." DOES THE CATHOLIC HAVE A LAW OR RULE TO FOLLOW ? A. The Church’s rules regarding the funeral of a baby are not very precise. The first rule given in the Roman Ritual is ignored in this country: There should be a special section of the cemetery in which babies are buried; they shouldn't be in terred amidst adults. The only other general rule is that if bells are rung for the funeral they should not be sor rowful, but rather festive. W reaths of flowers and aromatic plants are recommended; joyful psalms The Ritual makes no mention of a Mass; but we know that custom does permit the Mass of the day —or a simple votive Mass of the Angels-to be said or sung. So you see that the rules do permit differences. Usually a priest is guided by the reasonable wishes of the parents. . . which is the basic law of love in such circumstances. ••• Q. I AGREE WITH YOU THAT FOR A TRUE PARTICIPATION IN THE LITURGY THE ONLY PROPER TIME TO RECEIVE THE HOLY EU CHARIST IS DURING THE MASS - NOT PRIOR TO THEf HOLY SACRIFICE. MY PROBLEM, HOWEVER, IS THIS: A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO A NEW ASSISTANT PRIEST WAS TRANS FERRED TO OUR PARISH. HE CELEBRATES THE 6 A.M. MASS EVERY MORNING, EXCEPT THAT HE NEVER STARTS IT ON TIME. SOME MORNINGS HE COMES OUT AT 5:45; ON THE OTHER DAYS HE COMES WANDERING OUT AT 6:15, OR EVEN AS LATE AS 6:20. OUR PARISH IS COMPOSED PRIMARILY OF WORKING PEOPLE WHO MUST BE AT WORK AT 7 OR 8 IN THE MORNING. IT INVOLVES A CERTAIN HARDSHIP RISING EVERY MORN ING TO GET TO THE 6 O’CLOCK.MASS. ON MORNINGS WHEN THE PRIEST BEGINS VERY EARLY HE IS WELL THROUGH MASS BY THE TIME WE ARRIVE. ON OTHER MORNINGS ABOUT 40 OF US HAVE TO LEAVE CHURCH BEFORE COMMUNION TIME IN ORDER TO GET TO WORK. SEVERAL PEOPLE IN OUR PARISH HAVE DIPLOMATICALLY SUGGESTED TO THE PRIEST AND ALSO TO THE PASTOR THAT THE 6 O'CLOCK MASS START AT 6, BUT TO NO AVAIL. DO YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS TO REMEDY THIS SITUATION, OR IS IT SIMPLY ONE OF THE "DAILY CROSSES" WHICH THE CONGREGATION MUST BEAR? A. Quit being diplomatic! Maybe a delegation of about 40 might produce results. 000 Q. IN YOUR ANSWER TO GOING TO HOLY COMMUNION BEFORE MASS, I SHOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT YOUR ANSWER IS TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO GO TO WORK, AND CANNOT STAY AND GO DURING THE MASS. PLEASE RECON SIDER YOUR ANSWER, AND THINK OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WOULD BE DENIED THE PRIVI LEGE OF RECEIVING OUR DEAR LORD. HE DOESN’T CARE IF WE RECEIVE HIM BEFORE MASS. I DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD SAY THAT THERE ARE MANY PARISHES WHICH CONTINUE TO IGNORE THE APPEAL OF POPE PIUS XIL WILL YOU PLEASE CONSIDER THE WORKING CLASS A LITTLE MORE? A. Lady, my own parish is made up almost en tirely of working-class people; but we try to con form to the true meaning of the Mass and to par ticipate fully in it. An earlier Mass, or an even ing Mass, might be the answer to your problem. In my answer I did mention that the Church per mits you to receive before Mass when it is not possible to receive during Mass - but when you do, you sunply do not participate fully in the Mass as sacrifice or as the banquet of love and unity-. And that is of greatest importance - unless you choose to ignore the true meaning of both Mass and Communion. Saints in Black and White ST. NICHOLAS 37 HOUSING Priest Says Realtors ACROSS 1. Part of parrot’s bill 5. Border on 9. Roman cloak 13. People 14. Bulrush 15. Winning card 17. United States Information Service 18. Ignore 20. Unhappy feeling 22. A'fugitive 25. Flit 26. Asiatic tree 27. ... Deum 28. Sweet potato 29. Receptacle 30. Economic Co-Opeation Administration 31. Edited; abbr. 32. Spiteful 34. Preteric 35. Coffin stand 39. Coercion 41. Snake 42. River island 44. His feast is honored by the ... 48. He loved ... 51. Cat cry 52. Besides 53. Like paradise 55. Refreshing 56. Relative pronoun 59. ... settlers in West made his feast popular 60. At the age of 61. Germanic barbarian 62. Ordinary; abbr. 63. Sesame 64. Old Tesament 66. Terminates 68. In so far as 69. Farmland measurement 71. Light tans 73. Celebrity 75. Domino 76. Hearse 78. Per 80. English statesman 81. Past subjunctive of be 82. Ardor 83. Indian weight; pi. DOWN 1. Woo 2. Follow 3. Restrain 4. One who endeavors 5. There 6. Float 7. City in Southern Germany 8. Opening word of Canon of Mass 9. Size of shot 10. Encircle 11. Throat; L 12. Entertainer 16. Constantine asked him to pray for ... of the world 19. Rage 21. Star in Aquarius 23. Lump 24. Part of “to be” 29. Faulty 33. Ayes 34. 23rd letter of Greek alphabet 35. Cistern 36. Isaiah 37. Prefix meaninkg on 38. Fatigued 40. Compass point 42. Total 43. Thin 45. Affirmative 46. Untried 47. Pen 49. Allow 50. Fertilized 54. Confraternity of Christian Doctrine 55. Erases 56. Exclamation 57. Premonition 58. He is patron of Russia, together with St. ... 60. Aria 63. Technetium; abbr. 64. One who eyes 65. Between 13 and 19 inclusive 67. Certain 69. Bows 70. General's assistant 72. Soviet Socialist Republic 74. Top rating 77. Errors excepted 79. His Holiness ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE ON PAGE 7 Foster Discrimination SAN FRANCISCO, (NC)— Msgr. George G. Higgins char ged here that the National As sociation of Real Estates Boards is encouraging racial discrimination in housing. The prominent authority on Catholic social teachings said the association's recent policy statement which upheld abso lute property rights means "that the social teaching of the churches has had practically no Influence in the real estate pro fession." MSGR. HIGGINS is director of the Social Action Department of die National Catholic Wel fare Conference, Washington, D. C. He spoke here to a lo cal Conference on Religious and Race at which nearly every church in the city was repre sented. In his address, Msgr. Hig gins said Negroes have "the duty” to stand up for their rights and clergymen ought to explain this to their congrega tions. HE ALSO said White Americ ans are free to disagree with the Negro's tactics in the civil rights drive.. But he added: "On the other hand, they are not free to tell die Negro to sit back patiently and wait for time to vindicate his rights.” Msgr. Higgins said that while he did not rate President Kennedy’s civil rights pro posals "a perfect bill," it is a "great step forward.” "IT IS to be hoped,” he said, "that religious organizations will do everything within their power to encourage die Con gress to enact this bill into law at the earliest possible date." Msgr. Higgins brought in the National Association of Real Estate Boards because, he said, its opposition to open occupancy legislation "is so diamentri- cally opposed to traditional Ca tholic teaching on the subject of property.” THE ASSOCIATION, which he said represents 74,000 indivi dual real estate agents and 1; 1,455 local boards, recently adopted at a Chicago meeting of its board of directors a policy statement on property rights. Msgr. Higgins said that the statement held that pro perty owners have die right to own and enjoy their property according to their own dicta tes and the right to occupy and dispose of it without govern ment interference. "TO CALL a spade a spade, this means that, in NAREB’s opinion, property owners should have die legal right to discri minate against Negroes,” he said. "THE FACT that such an im portant organization still offi cially subscribes to this philo sophy and is still sppeallng to it as a justification for ra cial discrimination in the field of housing is most dishearten ing. It means, among other things, that the social teaching of the churches has had practically no influence in the real estate profession,” he said. OF CATHOLIC thought this subject, he said: "If a property owner’s bad formed conscience? tells hi that he can discriminate agair Negroes in the sale or rent of his property then Cathol social teaching would say tha the government has die rig and may even have die duty intervene, in defense of t Negro’s right to decent housin by enacting an ’open occupanc law." Of the argument that rea tors have no responsibility determine the racial, creedal« ethnic composition of any neigt borhood, Msgr. Higgins con mented; "THAT'S A lot of doubletal Real estate agents are not e pected to determine the con position of neighborhoods. ( the other hand, they are e pected to use their influen to promote die cause of i; terracial justice in their ov profession. To skirk this n sponsibility in the name of pr fessional ethics comes clo to being hypocritical.” Catholic real estate agent he said, ought to take time o to check the NAREB’s statt ments with the social encycl cals of the Popes on the san subject. "They will find that the enq clicals flatly reject the notir that anyone has the right ’occupy and dispose of prc perty without government inte: ference in accordance with t) dictates of his conscience,’ he said. ARNOLD VIEWING Expensive Water BY JAMES W. ARNOLD Making profitable movie comedies in competi tion with free television must often seem as dif ficult as selling bottled drinking water at $5 a gallon. The only way to succeed is to offer some thing the other fellow doesn't - like mixing some hooch in with the water or bottling it in fine Ita lian cut glass. Universal studios found the box-office formula with "Pillow Talk” and its successors, "Lover Come Back" and "That Touch of Mink.” These three films alone had a gross profit of over $31 million. The idea is to spike the yaks with sex and wrap die product in a glittering package (polish, color, gowns, sets) that TV won’t or can't af ford. Latest off the Universal assembly line are two comedies ("The Thrill of It All,” "For Love or Money”) much like each other and their predecessors, with several intriguing differ ences. UP TO NOW the cycle had become progressive ly gamier ("Mink” spoofed, among other things, virginity and homosexuality), with heroine Doris Day typecast as a Nice Girl Who Who Wishes She Wasn't and closer to her wish each time. As her husband and producer, Martin Melcher, put it re cently: "First she did movies in which she was sophis ticated, but not married. It’s what you call ’clean sex.' You go right to the borderline, and the phone bell saves everydiing. Now she’s in a marriage cycle. She has a license to be sexy with her husband...” The last describes "Thrill," as well as the forthcoming "Move Over, Darling." If "Thrill" has Miss Day in her marriage cycle, "Money” continues the sophisticated unmarried cycle with another cute blonde, Mitzi Gaynor. Since marriage as a prerequisite for sex is, morally, a crucial technicality, one must prefer the new cycle to the old. But customers should not be confused: both films are materialisitc fantasies in which marriage, oddly, is seen as a techni cality, and in which the appeal is directed well below the eyebrows. CROSS-BREEDING is evident. Producer Robert Arthur ("Mink") and director Michael Gordon ("Pillow Talk”) supervises "Thrill". Both films use pastel-bright Eastman color with the women in gorgeous Jean Louis clothes, have scores by the same composer (DeVol), change scenes with spinning flip cuts, and run exactly 108 minutes. All the characters have incomes in the top one percent, yet the acquisition of more money is their main motivation. Miss Day is an obstetrician’s wife who is persuaded to do TV soap commer cials ("I couldn't say no to $80,000"). In "Money," playboy-lawyer Kirk Douglas takes a distasteful job only because of the fee ("Who can turn down $100,000?"). The films agree that every man has his price, differ only (slightly) on the amount. culturists, and the inevitable Beatniks. In "Thrill,” one cruel, snobbish sequence is di rected at autograph fans; die rest is aimed chief ly at TV and advertising yes-men. Some of the effect is blunted because of unrealistic details: e.g.. Miss Day is supposed to give an unscript ed, unrehearsed sales pitch in the same studio with actors putting on live drama. Little on TV is live and unrehearsed except baseball and the UN. CARL REINER'S script for "Thrill" leans heavily on a stock situation: Housewife gets gla morous job and fame. Resentful husband (James Garner) finds home life upset, decides to make wife jealous. Just as the conflict peaks, the couple is united by a Crisis (Arlene Francis has a baby in a car). Wife repents and goes back to the kids, pots and pans, and maid. The yaks are often rather desperate. Sample: The abandoned Garner arouses the sleeping maid (the late Zasu Pitts), who thinks she's being at tacked and clubs him with a baseball bat. The film is saved by young Garner’s smooth comic flair and two marvelous sight gags - a swimming pool overflowing with sudsy detergent and five minutes of hysteria by character-actor Edward Andrews as a middle-aged first-time father about to give birth in the middle of the East River Drive. "Money's” story line is too idiotic to relate, but it involves a dowager (Thelma Ritter) who hires Douglas to rig desirable marriages for her daughters. One is Miss Gaynor; the others are the Daisy Mae and Stupefying Jones of \ *Lil* Abner” (Leslie Parrish, Julie Newmar). Among the prospective husbands is Gig Young, playing the same genially confused millionaire as he did in "Mink." At one point, unbelievably, Bill Bendix is as signed to get laughs by feeling into a pay phone to see if he got his dime back. Miss Gaynor moves right into Miss Day's "clean sex” role and bar ges gaily to the borderline. Douglas invites her to his boat, warns her it’s called the Misconduct. Mmm, she smiles, "sounds promising." But even "Money” has one or two moments. There is the time when Douglas and Miss Gay nor try to hold a serious conversation while do ing the twist. And near the fadeout, actor Young, wearing only a blanket, manages to get marooned on a pole in the middle of foggy San Francisco Bay. When that happens on TV, you won’t see anything but a gray smudge. CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS: For everyone: The Miracle Worker, To Kill a Mocking bird, Lawrence of Arabia, The Four Days of Naples. For connoisseurs: Sundays and Cybelle, The L- Shaped Room. Better than most: The Longest Day, Mutiny on the Bounty, Days of Wine and Roses, A Child Is Waiting. The comedy targets are stereotyped and safe. Kids may like: PT-109, List of Adrain Messenger, In "Money," they are depth psychology, physical The Lion. God Love You BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN Is this the "Atomic Age” in which we live, or is it the "Hunge Age?” Which is more explosive: the fission erf a uranium atoi or the starving stomachs of the poor? Nations trigger nuclea warfare, but emptiness is human dynamite. Hunger is the more terrible because it is the opposite of riche: One-fourth of the world gets richex almost all of the rest become poorex Economic development enriches th rich, and soul-explosion (or what i improperly called population explo sion) impoverishes the poor. A Frenc writer tells us that before World Wa II 38 per cent of the world's popula tion did not have enough to eat; no 60 per cent are in that conditioi No, the starving have no army, bt they have a General—and his name is Hunger. These people live in a state of compulsory fasting; they ha’ not the vow of poverty, but die "vow” of destitution—and dest tution is now a vow because it is forced on them. Sometimes, too, individual vows of poverty go hand in hand wi corporate wealth. It is like having no apple on the plate but a ba rel full in the cellar. "Blessed are the poor in spirit," said tl Lord. Does not that apply to all who are signed with the Cros; In the face of 25 million in Brazil who subsist on $84 a year, ha' we not a duty to share our possessions with them? Given a lai where 500 of every 1,000 babies perish in their first year and tl rest go on a diet of molasses and manioc-root flour, with i milk, have we the moral right to put up a cathedral or a chur< costing over a million dollars without sharing? The fact is, we have too much and others too little, and the S< of God bids us bear the burdens of others. Instead of addii wealth to wealth, building to building, we should be adding shac to shack, hut to hut in other lands. In some places, the dead a not buried in coffins, but in paper because wood is too costl One hundred thousand people in one city are totally unemploy' and spend their time scavenging; another 300,000 work a day two a week for 45 cents a day and pay 65 cents a week for the mud hut to some landowner. This is not an economic condition; it is a moral condition And the burden falls principally on the Church. Take the vo\ of poverty. How many hundreds of millions in Africa, Asi and Latin America would take the vow tomorrow if they coul live as well as those who profess it. Oh yes, we give the Holy Father a collection a year for all hi; poor in Africa, Asia, parts of Latin America, Oceania and Nor thern Europe—an average per capita contribution of 27 cent per Catholic. But should it not be $27 each, or $270 each? An this not because we fear the revolt of the masses, but becausi we fear for the Church and the faithful in the United State unless we stop providing for our wants before we care for tht needs of our brethren in Christ. Millions will read this and sa^ "How truel" But how many dozen will read it and say: "I wil be ture to Christ Who died for me: therefore I shall do a littlf dying in sacrifice for those in whom He relives His poverty. I you will be one of these dozens, send the results of your sacri fice or write for information on wills and annuities to The So ciety for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, Ne\ York 1, New York. GOD LOVE YOU to Anonymous for $11 "Money saved by roll ing my own cigarettes, working overtime and other economies With a roof over my head and three meals a day, I am riel compared to your missionaries.” . . .to J. A. H. for $10 "Fo a special favor." . . .to R. S. for $2 "Most of my ten childre need shoes. A dear friend gave me $20 so I will send this to tht Missions and hope it helps a little." ...to Mr. and Mrs. K. H for $5 "This small sum was left over after we returned from a nice vacation.” SHEEN COLUMN: Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to ii 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 lx, N. Y. or your Diocesan Director.