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GEORGIA PINES
New Bulldogs
Saints in Black and White
ST. PAUL
BY REV. R. DONALD KERN AN
"Win or lose, they’ll do it with class.” This
and many simular comments were heard emana
ting from some 400 people who gathered one night
last week in Gainesville’s Civic Building for a
program held by the Touchdown Club.
The occasion was a speech given by Georgia’s
new athletic director, Joel Eaves, and one delive
red by the Bulldog’s new head coach, Vine Dooley.
THE WHOLE BULLDOG coaching staff had
travelled from Athens to Gainesville to appear on
a program. They went over big as evidenced by
the fact that both Eaves and Dooley received a
standing ovation when they had finished speak
ing. (This is no easy feat in a town which is seem
ingly split even between Bulldog and Yellow
Jacket fans.)
Chicken magnate Jack Short
had done a singularly specta
cular job in getting out a crowd.
While the Touchdown Club has
good support from the town-
folk because it sponsors Little
League programs, it has not al
ways been easy to get a crowd
to the banquet meeting held
I three times a year. 1 went to
one last year and it looked more
like a corporal’s guard than the occasion of a
banquet.
PUBLICITY DIRECTOR Dan McGill led off the
list of speakers. He had an official announce
ment to make. He put everyone at ease when he
announced that in spite of die fact that the new
coaching staff looked "Auburn trained”, the Bull
dogs were not going to be renamed the "Bull-
eagles.”
Genial Harry Meher, columnist for the Atlanta
newspapers, followed McGill on the list of spea
kers, (Harry had been a speaker at the prev
ious meeting of the Club) Himself a Georgia coach
for 15 years followed by 7 at Ole Miss, he is
always very popular among these mountain-folks.
(After the program Harry confided that he had
gone to an early morning Mass in Jacksonville
the morning of the disasterous Rooservelt Hotel
fire. "Now”, he said, “I go to the earliest Mass
I can find whenever I am in another city*'.
Another member of the Georgia coaching staff
is the former Cedartown High coach, Doc Ayres.
A native of Toccoa, Doc lead the Cedartown
eleven through many successful seasons, some of
which included Regional and Sub-regional titles.
Doc is an old friend. Several times I had lunch
with him at the late Ed Dugan’s home over in
Cedartown. Ed was a leading Catholic layman,
Serra Club member, and a great sport enthus
iast. On more than one occasion Ed remarked to
me before his death the great influence Doc
Ayres had on the youth of Cedartown. "He was
a moulder of characted plus a great coach",
Ed said many a time.
Atlanta born, Joel Eaves was next on the spea
kers platform. With a voice that commanded at
tention the new Athletic Director made no false
boasts or foolish promises. Nor did he play
to the grandstand for a high applause. He simply
said, "We are going to work at winning". (This-
statement did draw a standing applause though.)
The program reached the climax with the in
troduction of Head Coach Vine Dooley. In
a quiet and unassuming way he described a
winning team as one in which "preparation meets
with opportunity". He left us all with the impress
ion that he hopes opportunity comes along, but
that he would do his best to make sure his team
is prepared. (This too drew a standing applause.)
Coach Dooley has a good sense of humor tho
ugh. Referring to the Ecumenical spirit of our
times he told some clergy jokes which inciden
tally Billy Graham had used earlier in the day
when he addressed the Georgia Assembly. (Same
jokebook?)
With that the program ended. The informality,
humbleness and dignity of the visitors left a good
impression on everyone present. Gainesville is
sure behind the Bulldogs now.
Things are looking up at Sanford Stadium.
QUESTION BOX
Explain Two Dates
BY MONSIGNOR J. O. CONWAY
Q. In reading about the visit of Pope Paul to
the Holy Land I noted that on the last day of
his visit, which was Jan. 6 he said Mass in the
grotto where our Saviour was born. This seemed
an appropriate date, since at various times and
places in the early Church the feast of the Nat
ivity was apparently celebrated on Jan. 6. How
ever the article stated that just after the Pope
left, the Orthodox began preparations to comme
morate Christmas eve, indicating that Christmas
would be celebrated the next day, Jan. 7. Would
you please explain this? #
A. It is all a problem of the calender. Some
of the Orthodox continue to use the old Julian
calendar for their religious services. This makes
their calendar 13 days in retard as compared
to our own Gregorian calendar. The history of the
calendar is quite complex. It is
based upon the earth’s rotation
in its orbit around the sun. How
ever, consideration is also
given to the relationship of this
orbit to the fixed stars. The
solar day, which is our day of
24 hours, is about four minutes
longer than the sidereal day,
as based on the relative relat
ionship of the earth and the
sun to a fixed star.
Possibly I should go into more details in this
regard. There are 366 sidereal days in one year.
This means that from one vernal equinox to ano
ther the earth has passed through 366 days and
nights. However most of us do not caluculate
our days by the stars. W'e depend on the sun.
And for practical purposes Julius Caesar, relay
ing on the calculations of his astronomers, made
a calendar reform in the year 46 B. C. He figur
ed that each solar year was about 365 days and
six hours long. Six hours is onequarter of a
day; so he figured that if we added a day each
four years we would correct our error. He so
ordered, and the additional day was inserted
between the 24th and the 25th of February.
On modern calendars we consider it Feb. 29.
Caesar’s calculations were not accurate, but
two years later in 44 B. C., he was murdered
and his successors fouled up his plan by making
every third year a leap year.
As a result, by the time the first Ecumeni
cal Council of the Church was held at Nicea in
the year 325, the vernal equinox, which in
Caesar’s time was March 25, had changed to
March 21. One of the big problems of the Fat
hers at Nicea was to establish a date for Easter,
and the vernal equinox was very important for
this purpose. They accepted the date of March
21 for the equinox and the calendar continued
with one leap year every fourth year.
All through the Middle Ages, and especially in
the 13th century, astronomers pointed out that
our calendar was getting farther and farther
behind the computation of the Fathers at Nicea.
In the 13th century it was seven days behind.
By the 16th century it was 10 days behind.
Two big problems were involved. One was to
make exact calculations of the length of the solar
year. The other was to find some way of putting
a reform into effect. By the 16th century astrono
mers were capable enough to make the calcula
tions quite accurately, and all the Ecumenical
Councils of the Church of the 15th and 16th
centuries - Constance, Basle, Lateran V and
Trent— were concerned with the problem of
calendar reform, each of them urging the Pope
to do something about it.
Nineteen years after the close of the Council
of Trent Pope Gregory XIII ordered a reform.
First of all he dropped out 10 days, bringing
the calendar up to date with Nicea. Oct. 4,
1582, was immediately followed by Oct. 15, 1582.
The great St. Terera of Avila died that night.
Presumably her death agonies began on Oct. 4
and ended Oct. 15, lasting a few hours. Her feast
day is Oct. 15.
It was unfortunate for the effectiveness of Pope
Gregory’s reform that Protestantism had spread
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 7)
LITURGICAL WEEK
Septuagesima Sunday
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4
going to be thoroughly revised. However many
great teachers He raises up in the Church,
Jesus Christ is the Teacher and He teaches
principally through the Mass. If we do not meet
Him, see Him, hear Him in the Mass, we are
deprived.
THURSDAY, JAN. 30 ST. MARTINA, VIRGIN,
MARTYR. We cannot be Christians by proxy.
The foolish virgins of the Gospel are not per
sonally committed. They rely on the seriousness
and the engagement and the vigilance of the others.
The Council’s constitution on liturgy asks through
out that we become personally involved in public
worship in our union with Christ. The Church's
worship is our worship, not worship that someone
else offers for us.
FRIDAY, JAN 31 ST. JOHN BOSCO, CON
FESSOR. The simplicity of the joy and the virtues
extolled in the First Reading, and of the child
in the Gospel opens the human mind and heart to
receive from Christ. It rejects the exaggerated
independence and rugged individualism sometimes
falsely identified with maturity.
The Council's reform of public worship can
come to nothing unless it is received with a simi
lar simmplicity by all of us... who seek nothing
more than that closer union with Christ which
participatiorrand understanding can bring.
SATURDAY, FEB. 1 ST. IGNATIUS, BISHOP,
MARTYR. Nothing can separate us from the love
of God in Christ Jesus (First Reading) unless we
prefer our own life to His life in us (Gospel), un
less we prefer our own habits and prejudices to
that active participation in and personal engage
ment with the Chruch’s sacramental life for which
the Holy Spirit and the Council are pleading. The
constitution on public worship demands a conver
sion on the part of every one of us.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5
‘MELODRAMATIC, ILL-CONCEIVEir
Boston Weekly Denounces
‘Race, Religion’ Boycott
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ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE ON PAGE 7
BOSTON (RNS) — A Boston
Conference on Religion and
Race proposal to foster a child
ren’s boycott of local public
schools as a protest against
"racial imbalance” was de
nounced by The Pilot, Roman
Catholic archdiocesan news
weekly, as "melodramatic and
ill-conceived,"
A resolution urging the boy
cott was adopted here at a Con
ference on Religion and Race at
tended by some 300 Roman
Catholic, Protestant and Jewish
cergymen. The local boycott
would coincide with a nationwide
Lincoln Day protest of racial
imbalance in schools.
AN EDITORIAL in The Pilot
described the proposed demon
stration here as a "massive
bad example to young people in
their relationship with the
school and law.”
The paper admitted that edu
cational conditions in Boston
public schools "needs continu
ing attention to be brought to a
state where they meet our pre
sent and future needs."
IF NOTED, however that
school committees and superin
tendents "have shown willing
ness to* cooper ate with other re
sources in the community" to
Improve conditions.
‘The problem of the disad
vantaged child, of whatever race
or background,” The Pilot stat
ed, "has high priority in the
ARNOLD VIEWING
Violence On Screen
BY I AMES W. ARNOLD
New experimental evidence by University of
Wisconsin psychologists appears to fill in some
important holes in our knowledge of what movie
and TV violence does to people. The news is about
as reassuring to visual media patrons as the
surgeon general's report was to cigaret smokers.
For years the experts have been good-naturedly
confused about the effects of crime and violence on
the public psyche. Some pessimists have insisted
that bloody comics, films and TV shows were
"schools for delinquency.” Op
timists have supported the eat-
harsis theory that exposure to
make-believe mayhem is act
ually beneficial, allowing re
lease of aggression in harmless
fantasy instead of real life.
(E.g., rather than pushing his
mother-in-law down the stairs,
the viewer happily watches
Richard Widmark murder an old
lady in the movies). Evidence on both sides has
been slim and contradictory.
NOW A series of studies by Wisconsin’s Dr.
Leonard Berkowitz concludes that film violence
does increase the probability of real-life violence.
The studies show that even normal adults are
affected, although children are affected most, and
that the danger is greatest when the fictional vio
lence is morally "justified.”
The second point may prove bothersome to cen
sors, who have usually insisted that movie villains
be punished for their sins. The script most often
arranges this in eye-for-an-eye fashion: bullies
are beaten up, shooters are shot, stranglers are
strangled, axers are axed. Often the bad guy is dis
posed of as horribly as possible: how many films
have ended with the heavy screaming through
space to some unspeakable fate?
YET THIS IS precisely what Prof. Berkowitz
says "primes” a spectator to be a potential ag
gressor. He has been somebody clobbered who
deserved to be clobbered. It won’t be hard for him,
subconsciously, to find someone in real life who
also "deserves” it. If the film violence had been
unjust, the viewer would tend tobeashamedof his
own aggeessive feelings - an apparently wide
spread reaction, incidentally, to the murder of
President Kennedy.
The experiments, interestingly, involved the
seven-minute fight sequence at the end of Stanley
Kramer’s "The Champion.” Those who were told
that Kirk Douglas was a louse who got the beating
he deserved were more likely to be hostile after
ward than those who believed Douglas was unjustly
beaten.
OBVIOUSLY, not everyone exposed to film
violence goes on to commit some violent act.
Most people have strong inhibitions (moral, fear
of reprisal or punishment). Probable aggressors
are those with the least inhibitions and those most
apt to connect the make-believe with their own
lives (children, immature adults). Probable vic
tims are those who innocently share some char
acteristic of the movie victim (e.g., a boxer), or
who have traits that habitually annoy the aggressor
(e.g., jews or Negroes).
This subconscious urge to violence lasts but
briefly (longer for children, who may hang play
mates for days agter seeing "Billy Budd.”) But
what of the effect of seeing justified violence, day
after day, year after year, in all media? Prof.
Berkowitz suggests that this may gradually wear
away an individual’s inhibitions: he "learns” that
violence, in some circumstances, is right. In time,
he is likelv to find the right circumstances.
A child may be shown repeatedly that the world
is a hazardous place, inhabited by evil beings, and
that forces is often the key to power. Danger is
slight, Prof. Berkowitz believes, if such informa
tion is clearly contradicted in the real world, es
pecially by parents. But how many are aware there
is a need for contradiction? More drearily yet, how
many actually lend these dark notions their fre
quent support?
IN THIS CONTEXT this week, I saw William
("Homocidal”) Castle's new film, "Strait-
Jacket,” in which there are six actual or at
tempted axe-murders - eight, if you count a
double - murder replayed during a flashback.
Castle's only artistic pretense is to amuse people
who enjoy axe-murders, and it’s easy to dismiss
:this stuff as trash, although for this one he has
employed writer Robert Bloch ("Psycho”) and
actresses Joan Crawford and Diane Baker.
Yet this is the material that makes up the week-
in, week-out culture of many Americans. More
people will see it than "Lilies of the Field” and
"Lord of the Flies” combined. In the theater
with me was at least one mother on shopping trip
with a five-year-old daughter.
Apart from the blood (we actually see only sha
dows of females wielding axes and heads popping
off), the film is thoroughly ludicrous. Miss Craw
ford swings an axe barely hard enough to dent a
marshmallow, and anyone who has seen "Psycho”
will guess the ending quite early. Characters and
axes flit from place to place unbounded by logic
or geography. The film gaily succeeds in frigh
tening people about mental disease and
"asylums,” and has a view of women and sex at
tributable to a backward 12-year-old.
THE CASTLES and those who get their kicks
from such clumsy banalities may always be with
us, although they can be laughed to the fringes of
society. That is a job for schools, insightful
parents, movie fans and movie critics.
Through films and TV, society reveals to most
fo its members the nature, varieties, limitations
and potentials of the human condition. Through
them most of our people gain a lasting image of
the meaning of Love. These are facts we cannot
change merely by darkening our personal TV sets
or staying away from the theaters.
CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS.:
For evervone: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World;
Lord of the Flies,, The Great Escape, Lilies of
the Field.
For Connoisseurs: Winter Light, 8 1/2, This
Sporting Life, The Leopard.
Better than most; Charade, The Hunting.
thinking of those charged with
responsibility for public educa
tion, as well as many other
persons of influence in the
city.”
THE EDITORIAL stressed
that School committees and su-
that clergymen whould "show
respect for the professional
educator, as the professional
elsewhere" and work with pro
grams devised for meeting de
ficiencies.
"Boycotts and marches and
all the rest,” The Pilot obser
ved, "have their place in the
struggle for racial justice; they
have demonstrated their effec
tiveness in a variety of ways.”
BUT THE editorial asserted
that such success does not mean
that boycotts and marches
“have universal validity” in
every situation.
"Just as there is a time to
march,” The Pilot declared,
"there Is a time to stop march
ing and start working.”
IT HELD THAT religious
leaders have a contribution to
make in improving racial jus
tice in housing, employment and
education. The clergy should
make the contribution "on rea
listic terms which indicate their
grasp of the moral principles
involved as well as the exis
tential situation in which these
principles must operate.”
Continuing, the editorial stat
ed:
“IT WOULD BE a good deal
more advantageous for a rep
resentative religious group to
sit down with real estate people,
educators and employers and
work with them in ways that
can be productive.”
"Keeping youngsters out of
school may make headlines but
it does not solve existing school
problems, it merely creates
new ones.”
NYC Religious
Classes Boom
NEW YORK (NC)—New York
City’s released-time religious
education program for public
school students has reached a
five-year high of 109,572 parti
cipants, an increase of almost
6,000 over a year ago.
At their parents' request,
particiapting students are re
leased from school an hour
early one day each week for
religious instruction in sites
provided by their churches.
Seminary Fund
Remember the SEMINARY FUND of the
Archdiocese of Atlanta in your Will. Be
quests should be made to the “Most Rev
erend Paul J. Hallinan, Archbishop of the
Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta and his suc
cessors in office”. Participate in the daily
prayers of our seminarians and in the
Masses offered annually for the benefactors
of our SEMINARY FUND.
God Love You
BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN
God implanted in the human body two impelling passions for
the preservation of life: one, the hunger of our own body that
our personal life might be preserved by nourishment; the other,
the hunger to beget in love a body like unto our own through
the generation called birth. What is happening to these passions
in the world today? Like all other things, they have become
divorced. Our American civilization has taken the hunger of
begetting a new life, isolated it from birth and erected a statue
to the new goddess, Sex.
But we forget that another
biological urge is driving men
to degredation, famine and dis
ease, outside of this wealthy,
affluent and overstuffed land,
namely, hunger. If, after eat
ing, these poor people regur
gitated their food and separat
ed the function of eating from
the function of nourishing the
body, we would have a parallel
with the American divorce of sex from the nourishment of either
love of husband and wife or love of family.
Would it not be well for the United States to devote some of
the energy now devoted to sex toward nourishing famished
people of the world, knowing full well that biological nutrition
is more fundamental than somatic tintillation. We who have the
Faith and a remnant of Christ’s moral teaching cannot say this
does not concern us, asking: "What am I to Hecuba or Hecuba
to me?” Because others make love synonymous with smut and
equate our relation to the starving of the world with governmental
aid, it does not follow that we Christians are immune from double
duty: reparation for the sins of others and alleviation of the hunger
of others.
The sins of America are our sins: the hunger of India and Latin
America and Africa is our hunger. If the world’s sex and hunger
has broken Christ’s Heart, how shall we be His followers unless
our own hearts are broken? To us is given the privilege of carry
ing a cross to expiate the sins of others, to lift a cross from star
ving bodies that their souls may be free to serve God. May the
disturbance of the Holy Spirit move you all to share with the
Crucified Christ the burden of the world's sin and hunger.
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a complete recovery from an emotional difficulty of 25-years'
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vited me out to dinner tonight, but after reading your column we
decided to stay home and send the money to you instead.”....to
M.V. for $2 "I am a nursing student and wish to contribute some
of my savings to the world’s less fortunate. This is thanksgiving
for the many things I take for granted, the blessings which have
been poured upon me, and the many prayers which have been
answered.”
Send us your old gold and jewelry—the valuables you no longer
use but which are too good to throw away. We will resell the
earrings, gold eyeglass frames, flatware, etc., and use the money
to relieve the suffering in mission lands. Our address: The Society
for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York, New
York 10001.
Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to it and mail it to Most
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pagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York lx* N. Y. or
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