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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 ”0. Roman author 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.