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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5
GEORGIA PINES
Auraria Gold History
BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN
Last year about this time I wrote about the
“Coffee Club” to which I belong It is made up
of about eight men and we eat breakfast together
every morning at the Dixie Hunt Hotel here in
Gainesville. The roster includes the former
Director of the Department of Public Safety, a
bank president, a lawyer ^ a City Commissioner
and some of the local businessmen.
came to Auraria from Virginia to operate a
general store.
Auraria was named by John C. Calhoon who
operated the Calhoon mines with slave labor. It
was the site of the first Gold Rush in 1832.
Between the years 1829 and 1839 some twenty
millions of dollars worth of gold was estimated
to have been mined in Cherokee County (now
Lumpkin).
Once or twice a year we take a trip. Last
year the “excursions” brought us to Gatlinburg
in North Carolina and Callaway Gardens at Pine
Mountain, Ga. One day this past week we took a
little trip up into the north Georgia mountains.
I We were gone only about four hours but it was
fascinating to me to see and to know that such in
teresting places are less than 20 miles north
of Gainesville.
OUT FIRST stop was at a breath taking spot
atop a hill known as Boot Hill. It was a cemetery
which commanded an ubstructed view of the north
Georgia mountains to the north and Gainesville
to the south. In this cemetery lie the last in
habitants of a once thriving town known as
Auraria, Founded in the late 17
hundreds the town at one time
boasted of a citizenry of 10,000
people.
The -cemetery, nowunkemt,
had some interesting grave
markers. One lady who panned
gold requested a pan over her
grave as a marker. Rusted and
now decayed the pan still lies
as a marker. Another grave
holds the remains of Agnes
Pascal, a midwife of the com
munity, who was reputed to be the “Florence
I Nightengale” of the town after having delivered
over 800 babies. Designated by a rusting iron
fence around a cluster of toppled grave mar
kers are the graves of the Lily family who
IN AURARIA was located the frst bank in the
state of Georgia.
A citizen of Auraria, Green Russell led the
“Russell Boys” across the country to establish
another city with the same name. He settled this
city near the mouth of Cherry Creek and today it
is known as Denver, Colorado. Another settle
ment out west known as Russell Gulch later became
Central City, Colorado,. . . “the richest square
mne on the earth”.
During World War II Americans were horrif
ied to read about the infamous Death March on
the island of Bataan. However, somewhat of a
of a parallel situation was initiated last century
near Auraria, Georgia. General Winfield Scott in
1838 rounded up the Indians in the locale and mar
ched them out west.
AS DAHLONEGA grew, Auraria failed. . . and
today it is a place on a state road hardly recogn
izable except for the markers placed on the side
of the road by the Georgia Historical Society.
All up through this area are evidences of once
thriving communities. A deserted mine, a grist
mill, toppled over shacks, and dirt roads all
give the toruist an insight into the fact that at
one time hundreds, yes, thousands, of people once
settled here and raised their families. Places
like Auraria are rich not only in Georgia History
but in American history. I wonder why these places
are not better advertised? Today they lie in obliv
ion dying from lack of attention.
QUESTION BOX
Evolution Theories?
Saints in Black and White
ST. AUGUSTINE 72
ACROSS
1. A great Apostle
like
5. Greenland’s colonizer
9. Girl's name
!3. Prefix
K. Indian tribe
45. He was bishop of
5V. Wrongs
60. Indicates a Marist
Father
61. Any (dial.)
62. Finish
63. Fournier of Rcbis-n
6a. Morning
23.
Size of shot
Mother
Sharp
Household pet
"Lady of the Lake"
outlaw
Operate
A;so
Vietnam
69. Germ
’0.
Murmur
18. Inner parlors: (Scot)
71. Man’s name
42.
... . corde (Mus.)
20. Landholders in early
73. Rolled tea
43.
He was one
England and Scotland
22. Pits for ashes
75. Elliptical
76. Folds
45.
Mid-Western State
(Abbr)
25. Suare
78. Solemn statement
•16.
Place
26 test
2‘\ Compass point
80. Food (comb. Form)
■t -7 .
My (Sp.)
81. To Direct
49.
Christmas
28. Slate-trimming tool
82. Barn owl
50.
Wooden panelling
29. Disfigure
83. Blissful abode
54.
Degree
30. Hawaiian yam
31. Preposition
DOWN
DOWN
55.
He was converted by
32. He wrote a rule for
1. His father was a . . . .
56.
Bellow
religious
2. Mediterranean plant
5-.
Bring upon oneself
3d. Copper coin
35. Haul
3. Western State
4. German city.
58.
He abandoned his
.... life
39. His mother
5 tu. Brute!
6. Applies friction
7. Wrath
60.
Bag
41. Barbarian
63.
British India
42. Facial twitching
64.
Subside
44. Undue favoring of
8. Light brown
65.
Fruit
relatives
9. Blood fucto.- '
6".
"Well done" (lug.)
48. Backflow
10. Strike
6‘>.
Man's nickname
51. Railroad Post Office
11. Hebrew measure
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52. Hawaiian flower
17. Arncricer- Indian
• 2.
Old Arab i.v-nsurt
wreath
16. Edible plant bulb
Fodder
53. Youthful
T9. Calmer
Edition «Abbr. 1
55. Higher than tenor
21. Blue-pencil
79.
Hunting rry.
ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE ON* PAGE‘7
ST LOUIS ANNIVERSARY
President Calls Education
Nation’s Foremost Need
ST. LOUIS (NC)—“Our pro
gress can be no swifter than
our progress in education” for
all Americans, regardless of
race or religion, President
Johnson said at a ceremony
marking expansion of Jesuit-
operated St. Louis University.
The President was here (Feb.
14) on the 200th anniversary
of the founding of St. Louis
by Auguste Choteau. In a whirl
wind six-hour tour he visited
the rising Gateway Arch on the
riverfront and the St. Louis Uni
versity campus, and spoke at
a civic banquet which opened
two years of bicentennial cele
bration.
AT THE university, where
he turned earth at a tree
planting, the President told
nearly 7,000 persons, most of
them students, that “the streng
th of this city comes from its
colleges, it s churches, and its
courageous people.”
The tree planting was at the
site of the Busch Memorial
Student Center, a $3.2 million
building named to honor a pio
neer St. Louis family. August
A. Busch, Jr., president of
the Anheuser-Busch brewery
corporation, is general chair
man of St. Louis University's
development program.
Busch Memorial will be the
largest structure on a 22-acre
university expansion which is
rising in the midtown Mill Creek
Valley redevelopment project.
IN BRIEF remarks at the
Catholic institution Mr. Johnson
paid tribute to the world leader
ship of Pope Paul VI. He said
America works for peace and
for freedom and “for a world
in which men can have peace
and also have freedom and can
worship their God, not a godless
state.
"So in this work, I am sure
that all Americans and all free
men everywhere, whatever
their faith, welcome and are
grateful for the leadership being
offered so forcefully by His
Holiness Pope Paul,” he
declared.
THE PRESIDENT also said:
“America’s most urgent work
is educating its people, edu
cating all the people, all the
time, wherever they may have
been born or wherever they may
have chosen to live.”
FATHER Paul C. Reinert,
S. J., president of the univer
sity, introduced the President.
He called the occasion unpre
cedented “for both the city and
the university that bear the
name of St. Louis.” Both men
mentioned St. Louis Uni
versity’s place as the first
university west of the Miss
issippi.
The Chief Executive took the
occasion of the campus talk to
announce the appointment of
Stan (The Man) Musial as head
of the President’s physical fit
ness program. Musial, a 43-
year-old veteran of 22 base
ball seasons, retired from play
ing capacity with the St. Louis
Cardinals last summer. He is
now a vice president in the
Cardinal organization.
Beloved in baseball and in his
home town of St. Louis, Musial
was hailed by the President as
"more than a great player. He
is a young man’s hero . . . Stan
the Man is an authentic champ
ion.”
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,
BY MONSIGNOR J. O. CONWAY
Q. DOES IT MATTER TO GOD IF WE ACCEPT
THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION? I DO NOT UN
DERSTAND HOW GOOD SCIENTISTS CAN BE
GOOD THEOLOGIANS AT THE SAME TIME.
TINT BEGINS TO GLOW ON MY FACE EVERY
TIME THE TOPIC SWINGS TO THE SPANISH IN
QUISITION OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
HERE IS WHERE MY IGNORANCE SHOWS, AND
I WONDER IF YOU WOULD ENLIGHTEN ME.
A. It is pleasing to God that we seek the truth
and accept it. He gave us natural faculties of
observation and reason to be used in seeking-
the natural truths of the world He created. And
he gave us the supernatural “faculty” of faith
to be used in seeking, understanding and accept
ing the truths which He revealed to us. Truth is an
attribute of God himself; it never contradicts
itself. The integration of natu
ral truths learned by scientific
study and supernatural truths
taught us by God’s revelation
is not always easy. At some
stages of man's learning his
scientific knowledge has been
defective; at other times his
grasp of the true meaning of
revelation has not been com
plete.
Late in the 16th century Galileo's scientific •
teachings were condemned by theologians who
falsely interpreted the Scriptures. In the latter
half of the 19th century Darwin's scientific de
ductions were in disrepute in many religious
circles, because they seemed to contradict the
Genesis stories of creation. Scientists have now
gone far beyond Darwin; and Scripture scholars
have done much to uncover the true meaning of
Genesis. Both can now be good friends. And I‘
have known excellent scientists who were very
good theologians.
To answer your question more directly; no one
can deal sensibly with any of the biological scie-
^ nces today without accepting the theory of
evolution. And certainly the Church — and God
himself -- would wish that Catholics deal sensibly
with living things — the highest forms of God’s
earthly creation.
Q. CATHOLICISM IS OFTEN A PRIMARY CON
VERSATIONAL TOPIC AMONG MY NON-CATH
OLIC FRIENDS. MANY OF THESE FRIENDS
SEEM TO THINK OF MY RELIGION AS A MYS
TERIOUS ENIGMA. SINCE I BELIEVE THAT IG
NORANCE IS THE BASIS OF PREJUDICE I TRY
MY BEST TO EXPLAIN MANY OF OUR BELIEFS.
BUT I MUST CONFESS THAT A SLIGHT RED
A. The so-called Papal Inquisition had its orig
ins in the 13th century, and was a clearly de
fined legal procedure for the accusation, trial
and punishment of heretics. It was a normal
product of the juridical thought of its age, and of
the attitude towards heresy which prevailed at
that time, following the traditions of earlier cen
turies.
The most fertile field of the activities of the
Inquisition was in Southern France, where the
Catharist heresy was widespread, However it
soon followed the heretics into the neighboring
kingdom of Aragon. On those early days it ac
complished little in this Iberian kingdom, how
ever. At least two inquisitors were put to death.
What we usually know as the Spanish Inquisi
tion did not have its beginnings, however, until
the time of Ferdinand and Isabella, the cele
brated Catholic rulers who united the kingdoms
of Aragon and Castile sent Christopher Columbus
to America, and were noted for their rough
treatment of Jews and Moslems. They had
Pope Sixtus IV authorize the use of the Inquisi
tion especially against those Jews and Moslems
who pretended to become Christians under threat
of persecution. The Jews who faked conversion
were called Marronos, ; the Moslems • of simi
lar pretense were known as Moriscos.
Even in its early days this Spanish Inquisi
tion was notorious for its cruelties and injus
tices. In 1482, only four years after he had
instituted it, Pope Sixtus IV had to repremand
it for its false imprisonments tortures, and con
fiscation of property. In general we may say that
the Spanish Inquisition got out of hand; it be
came a tool of Spanish civil authorities; and
worst of all it lasted until modern times. Its
final suppression was in 1820.
You mention the 16th century particularly. The
Spanish Inquistion was used against any unfortu
nate Protestants who got caught in that Iberian
domain; and it did keep them out. It was less
successful, however, in later times, in efforts
to eliminate rationalism and various immoral
ities.
LITURGICAL WEEK
Purifying Our Minds
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4
, their function is that of service to the community
of His disciples and that the attitude and atmos
phere surrounding bishop and priest must mark
them as servants.
But the First Reading teaches of the desolation
of the human race without a Savior, and the first
part of the Gospel answers this hopelessness with
the resolve of Christ to go "up to Jerusalem...
to be crucified” and to “rise again.”
The First Reading teaches the folly of trust in
man and in man’s word and man s judgment, when
one has no trust in the only one who sees “into
man’s heart."
And the Gospel indicates that if we cannot hear
the accents of God and of the ultimate in the
words and deeds of Christ, of Moses and the
prophets, then our deafness will lead us to dis
aster.
FEB. 28, FRIDAY, 2ND WEEK IN LENT. Both
Old Testament story of Joseph (First Reading)
and the Gospel parable point to Jesus as anointed
Head of mankind and as innocent victim of man
kind’s selfishness and selfcenteredness. But His
death is only preliminary to His rising again, His
suffering for our sake is only that He might be
glorified and promise glory to us all (Collect,
Entrance Hymn).
FEB. 29, SATURDAY, 2ND WEEK IN LENT.
The Chosen People of the Old Testament were an
important instrument of God and in the history of
man’s salvation. In the fullness of time salvation
is offered equally to all. Penitent and latecomer,
foreigner and stranger are no less welcome at the
Lord’s table than the older son (First Reading
and Gospel).
Today’s lessons teach us that a human pride of
salvation is out of history or of particular voca
tion in the history of salvation is out of place
amont the brothers of the Lord and the sorts of
God.
FEB. 27, THURSDAY, 2ND WEEK IN LENT.
There is a stern call to penance, to sharing of
goods, to human solidarity in this Mass (Gospel),
together with a warning that men should open
their eyes to the ways in which God is speaking to
them.
ARNOLD VIEWING
Oasis Of Taste?
BY JAMES W. ARNOLD
In art, as in life, it’s not what you have but
what you do with it that counts. A notable example:
“Love With the Proper Stranger,” a deft but in
consistent little 95-minute film about a boy and
girl who fall in love on their way to an abortion.
Statistics show an increase both in unwed
motherhood and in attention devoted to it in the
public media, not all of it mature or enlighten
ing. But between the extremes of trash (“sear
ing truth” about the modern generation during
buck night at the local drive-in) and soap opera
(all those medics, lawyers and
social workers on TV), the
movies have found an occas
ional oasis of taste and com
passion.
Oddly, while the drift of op
inion in other media seems
sympathetic to birth preven
tion, pictures have hewed to a
<forth right pro-baby line. They
have not viewed the birth of an
illegitimate child as a greater evil than the cir
cumstances of its conception, or even as an evil,
but as a moral action which redeems not only
the mistake but often the dreary lives of the
participants.
IN “THE L-SHAPED ROOM,” a girl found that
the difference between hope and despair lay in a
real ability to love her neighbor as well as her
unborn child. In another British film, “A Taste
of Honey,” an accidental pregnancy and a resolve
to have a child sired by a Negro sailor bring
moments of love and light into an existence that
is otherwise tawdry, i materialistic and brutal..
“PROPER STRANGER,” an American film by
the makers of “To Kill a Mockingbird” (pro
ducer Alan Pakula, director Robert Mulligan),
concocts a happy ending to fit the pattern of
Hollywood romantic comedy. But the subject is
treated with grace and sensitivity in a frame
work of social and moral intelligence.
In Arnold Schulman's story, a Macy’s shop
girl (Natalie Wood) seeks help from her compan
ion of one night, an unemployed musician (Steve
McQueen) who can’t even remember her. After
arranging an abortion, the guilt - ridden musi
cian is unable to let her go through with it and
offers, too dutifully, to marry her. Refreshingly,
she scorns the marriage of convenience, and
the rest of the film, in cheery contrast to the
somber beginning, outlines their rapprochement.
The film’s viewpoint is a lonely one. Amid
dozens of movies that glorify the life of a pro
miscuous bachelor, it suggests that such a car
eer is boring and hollow. While casual sex is
usually presented as an indoor sport of boundless
pleasure, here it appears self-centered and pain
ful. The film indicates that consequences, good
or bad, flow from actions, good or bad, instead
of implying that fun somehow is eternal.
INSTEAD OF showing man and woman as two
atoms, disconnected from all others and con
nected to each other only by chemistry, “Pro
per Stranger” suggests that each is a human
linked by love to other humans, and that real
devotion involves sacrifice. Life is neither hope
less or sbsurd, but subject to marvelous manipu
lation by human will.
THE MOVIE, OF course, could say all this
and still be a lousy movie. But it’s not. Direc
tor Mulligan and cameraman Milton TCrasner shot
in New York locales with an eye for vivid vis-
usals, imaginatively put together in the film edit
ing; Schulman’s script is realistically sparse (full
of shrugs, grimaces, mumbles, conversational
cliches, uncompleted sentences), allowing ample
emoting room for the attractive, cinematic stars.
In the best scenes, they hardly speak at all
waiting in the cold of a bleak Sunday after
noon at the Fulton market for a contact with the
abortionist, struggling through an awkward
meeting with McQueen's parents, desperately
needing another $50 for the operation. Again, in
a dingy factory loft, what is said is interest
ing but secondary to what the actors convey
by their silences.
MULLIGAN’S skill is partly in bringing almost
three-dimensional depth to the flat black-
and-white screen, but mainly in achieving truth
without sensationalism. His triumph is the abor
tion scene; a dank, furnitureless flat where a
woman waits crouched over her tools like a sor
ceress, while a crass accomplice! whistles
quietly through his teeth. This little cubicle of
hell is transformed by the action; as the scene
ends, we see, at a discreet distance, McQueen
comforting the sobbing girl, and the room is
warmed by the decency of the human spirit.
The only flaw is the story’s split-personality,
half social tragedy, half boy-girl comedy with
Italian-American family overtones reminiscent of
“Marty.” Despite his generally worthless
character, the musician’s compassion for the
girl may be accepted. But when he comes a-
wooing in Sunday suit, violets in hand, the solut
ion is too comfortable for an otherwise honest
picture.
TV-TRAINED Mulligan has several rollicking
domestic scenes, remindful of the great years of
TV drama, in which cluttered kitchens and bath
rooms are populated by shouting, shirt-sleeved
actors and weeping, door-slamming actresses.
One beautiful bit has Miss Wood battling with a
protective brother while another brother sits un
perturbed, absorbed in a TV western.
There are sharp digs at traditional folkways;
e.g., double standard morality (“Guido’s a boy,
who cares what he does?”) and the notion that
nothing much matters about a potential son-in-
laW “as long as he’s Catholic.”
But “Marty” is too much in mind when the
family tries to bring together Miss Wood and a
lovably fat-but-clumsy short order cook (Broad
way’s Tom Bosley) with his assorted neurotic
female relatives. It’s funny, but it belongs in ano
ther picture.
Maybe the humor will help put the movie
over with audiences who can't face too much
unvarnished reality at one sitting. One hopes so.
The film deserves to make money.
God Love You
BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN
What will the Church be like after the Council? The twenty-
first century will be the century of the laity. The Church was
so busy after the sixteenth century, in affirming the truth of
the episcopacy and the priesthood which had been denied, that
the laity were reduced to a passive or secondary role. But
although the bishops and priests will always be superior in
divine calling and dignity to the laity, after the Council they
will be inferior to them in function or service. The former
will be more like Our Lord: “He that is the grestest among
you will become as the least.”
B The laity of the future will
be neither those who are * ’pro
minent” because they are rich
or have honors, medals and
decorations, nor those who are
mere sheep to be sheared by
multiple collections. The laity
will all be missionaries like
“the men of Cyprus and Cy-
rene who, when they found their
way to Antioch, spoke to the
Greeks as well, preaching Lord Jesus to them. And the Lord’s
power was with them, so that a great number learned to believe
and turned to the Lord” (Acts 11:20), The laity will consecrate
their professions and their work, whether it be scientific, com
mercial, legal, theatrical, industrial or secretarial, by influencing
their associates. The ’Third Orders” which arose out of medieval
religious communities will be modernized into groups of families,
neighborhoods and professions to sancitify and de-Christianized
world. The Church, instead of being a pyramid with the laity at
the Base and the priests and bishops at the top, will be a spiral
in which each, according to his function, extends Redemption
beyond the ghetto of a parish or a diocese into the world. The
world in which the laity will move with the divinity and the
spirit give them by the priest will listen to only one argument—
the forgotten argument of holiness. The world that has apostiz-
ed from God will be converted only by seeing how much God
means in our lives. As the atheist Nietzsche put it: “You will
never convince me of a Redeemer unless you act as one re
deemed.”
The Holy Father's Society for the Propagation of the Faith
writes thusly about the laity because we have 80,000 men and
women teaching religion in Africa and Asia—not in schools,
but moving from place to place while they address themselves
wholly to the unbelievers. Why could not laity aid the Holy Father’s
Society for the Propagation of the Faith by offering their services
to bring Faith and assistance to the hundreds of millions of poor.
Are there 100 men or women in the United States who are skilled
in organization and leadership and willing to give their time and
talents to The Society for the Propagation of the Faith for the
sake of Christ and His Church? Do not merely write and tell us
how money can be raised for the Missions. If you love the Christ
Who Redeemed you and your neighbor anywhere in the world, you
will know what to do,
GOD LOVE YOU to C.H. and classmates for $50 “We decided
that if we could spend as much as we did on our Junior Prom, we
could spend at least this for the Missions.” .... to L.J.P. for $2
“In thanksgiving to Our Mother of Perpetual Help for a very
normal, healthy baby.” .... to Mrs. C.L. for $1 “Shortly after
Pope John’s death, I asked for his intercession in prayer, and
my prayers were answered. I promised I would make his help
known.”
We are not only asking for your sacrifices, but for your prayers.
Send your request and an offering of $2 for the WORLDMISSION
ROSARY, and we will send you these multicolored beads blessed
by Bishop Sheen. Each time you say the WORLDMISSION ROSARY
you will remember to put aside a daily sacrifice for the Holy
Father.
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 Pro
pagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York lx, N. Y. or
your Archdiocesan Director, Very Rev. Harold J. Rainey P. O.
Box 12047 Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga.