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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5 GEORGIA PINES Frank Wilson BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN Though he followed a rigorous schedule which might have left another man physically exhausted, he never was too busy to find time for his friends. This was Frank Wilson, the late superintendent of Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital. I first met Frank Wilson one night when I hap pened upon an auto accident. After he would finish a busy day at the hospital, Mr. Wilson would ride late into the night in either a police car or one of the Grady ambulances. He familiarized himself with every facet of his job and there were no problems he did not have a first hand knowledge about. Ambulance drivers, police men, firemen, aide, nurse, in tern, resident or surgeon—all felt that when they had a prob lem they could get a direct answer from the "boss” him self. Right they were, for it mattered not to Frank Wilson whether the person in his of fice was a member of the Hos pital Authority or one of the janitors on the morn ing shift, all received honest, forward answers to their questions. Frank had a remarkable memory. Years after a resident would leave the hospital, he could re turn for a visit and Frank would not only call the man by his first name but also ask about his wife, children and home town. Mr, Wilson never forgot a friend. I have been stationed in four towns outside the metropolitan area and regularly he would stop by the rectory on his way to visit some doctor who had interned at Grady. 1 thought Frank Wilson knew the late Monsignor Maloney only casually, but it was cas ual enough that he took time out of his busy schedule to attend the Monsignor’s funeral. Nor was Frank one to mince words. One time 1 received a call to the Isolation ward at Grady. Under orders of “no visitors” the young nurse stopped me from entering. I tried, in vain, to ex plain that this was no ordinary visit but that I mad come to administer the Last Rites. Still she refused to allow me to enter. Finally I asked if she minded my going to Mr. Wilson. “No,” she said, “go see anyone you want, but orders are or ders”. Again I tried to explain (knowing full well how Frank would react to the situation) all that was involved. Well to make a long story short, when I returned I really got a warm welcome and the little nurse smiled and said, “I guess I really asked for it, Father”. .’Not much escaped his notice either. Before Archbishop Hallinan came to Georgia, I recall writing an editorial about the “glories of At lanta” and what the Archbishop would find when he arrived here. I guess I mentioned about everything—except Grady Memorial Hospital. The ink was hardly dry on the paper when I re ceived a note from Mr. Wilson asking me why Grady had not been mentioned. (Incidentally, he was a regular subscriber to the Georgia Bulle tin!). I’ve played golf with him and regularly he would come by the rectory here in Gainesville. His last visit here was just before Christmas and we recalled that when I was operated on at St. Joseph’s last year the first visitor that I had af ter coming down from surgery was none other tha n Mr. Grady Hospital himself, Frank Wilson. He was a driving force behind the new hospital building which is both a civic boast and a medical jem. No one will ever know the hours of planning, supervision and interest Frank Wilson put in to insure the success of that great project. After attending his funeral, driving out of At lanta, I passed by the hospital. I noticed the lights burning all over the hospital. I neard the shrill of the ambulance sirens on their missions of mercy. I saw the student nurses hurrying to their appoint ed posts. Yes, business as usual but it will be many a year before the figure of Frank Wilson is forgotten down “at the Gradys”. QUESTION BOX Residential Freedom? BY. MONSIGNOR I. 0. CONWAY Q. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE AN ARTICLE ON *“WHAT OUR OBLIGATIONS ARE IN RE GARD TO LIVING BESIDE AND SELLING HOMES TO COLORED PEOPLE.” WE CATHOLICS SHOULD NOT DISCRIMINATE: YET WE ARE LOOKED DOWN ON AND CALLED NAMES IF WE SELL TO THEM. SHOULD WE TRY TO PLEASE ONE FAMILY BY SELLING TO THEM OR A WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD BY REFUSING TO SELL? A. Freedom of residence is the most decep tive, the most easily rationalized, the lease eradicable, and one of the most basic and per vasive problems of race relations. It is deceptive. Father Joseph T, Leonard, S. S. J., in his recent book ’Theology and Race Relations” (Bruce), compares it to an iceberg. You see only the tiny top stick ing out of the water. The great destructive mass remains hid den below. The tiny top represents the facile arguments used by the white person; I have a right to choose my place of residence and my neighbors; and I have a right to do with my property aa I wish. 1 may sell or re fuse to sell as I choose; and no one else's right is violated by choice. Besides. 1 have a duty to my white neighbors. If I sell to a Negro they are made unhappy, their property values decline, and they may have to move in self defense. The destructive mass can be known only by careful exploration and study. Because property owners in white neighborhoods generally refuse to sell to Negroes, we have in nearly all of our cities strictly segregated Negro areas, walled in by prejudice as high and as hard as die wall of Berlin. And from this segregation many evils result: 1. The area, usually deteriorated to begin with, rapidly becomes a slum. This is due to many factors: the hopelessness and lack of pride of people penned in, inferior muncipal services: lighting, care of streets, garbage removal, etc., absentee landlordism, overcrowding, vandalism, and lack of incentive. 2. Segregated areas naturally breed discri mination: segregated and inferior schools, re creational facilities and local shopping areas. Since Negroes live apart they can never become an integrated part of the general community. 3. It limits the amount and the quality of housing available to Negroes. Since they are not able to choose housing freely, the laws of supply and demand cease to work. Demand in creases but supply is artifically limited; so the Negro must pay more for his home, whether he buys or rents, and he gets less value for his money, in effort to reduce his housing costs he must often rent out a room or maybe share his home with another family. Overcrowding re sults. 4. The evils of overcrowding are multiple; tension,^ friction, lack of privacy, disease, dan ger to morals, and especially the tendency to spend much time outside the home, may easily lead to various forms of delinquency. 5. Even when the house itself is adequate its neighborhood may prevent it from becoming a true home for happy personality development.. 6. Segregation permits the white man to see the Negro only as a group, offering little oppor tunity to know him as a person. Harmful gene ralizations result as to the Negro’s abilities, am bitions, delinquencies, etc. 7. The fact of segregation makes people judge that it is right to segregate. The old spirit of the status quol What is rightl 8. Higher housing costs often force mothers to work outside the home, leaving children un attended, or in care of neighbors. I could go on, but these are some of the more evident evils caused by the hidden mass of our iceberg: segregated housing. I urge thatyoumake your moral judgments in face of these facts. Segregated housing is rationalized, and it is also institutionalized. Deep down, with many of us, the pocket-book comes first; and property rights tend to push personal rights into the background. Jus tice, in the narrow view, pushes charity from the picture. At one time in our country we had racial zoning laws. In 1917 the U. S. Supreme Court declared them unconstitutional. Some still existed a few years ago. Then we adopted restrictive convenants, made part of the deed of ownership, forbidding sale of the property to colored people. In 1948 the U. S. Supreme Court declared that these conven ants could not be enforced. So now we have pacts among real-estate brok ers that they will not sell properties in white areas ^to Negroes, agreements among financial sources that they will not lend money for pur chase of such property, and neighborhood unions which use all available means to prevent sale to non-whites. Many cities of our country have known various forms of mob violence to drive Negroes from their homes in white areas. Even Catholics have been known to take part in these mob activities, reasoning that “the Church has no right to tell me who can live next to me,* Segregated housing is the least eradicable form of discrimination, at least in the North, because it can touch our pocketbook, and because it is so highly rationalized. In another column some day I will write about that bogey of declining property values resulting from a Negro’s mov ing into a neighborhood. It is largely an adage which proves itself true by the panic it creates. It contradicts the basic laws of economics. After all that, I leave you to make your own moral Judgments. Consider charity — love of neighbor— in all its facets; and consider jus tice in its wider, social aspects. Justice may not require YOU as an individual to sell your house to a particular Negro family. But Justice certainly does require YOU, as a social group, not to discriminate in such sale. Where there is group obligation, some part of it must wash off on the individual. Father Leonard, a professional theologian, states that you violate charity -- sometimes gravely — by racial discrimination in property deals. I maintain that you also violate justice in its broader, social aspects. A Negro family has a right to leap the walls of its ghetto, and YOU — at least the group YOU — deprive him of that right.- “He who possesses certain rights has like wise the duty to claim those rights. . . while all others have the obligation to acknowledge- those rights and respect them.'XPope John XXIII), Saints in Black and ELQEWd CASE Prayer In Schools Heads ST. VALERY, ABBOT STr' For Supreme Court Again X* > j t/V ' fo 1 1 H>y a mt? 1. 4. 8. 11. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 21. 26. 27. 30. 33. 36. 40. 43. 45. 46. 48. 50. 51. 53. 55. 56. 58. 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Pfeffer has written and lectured widely on Church-State issues. The parents will ask the U.S. high court to reverse a ruling handed down Jan. 29 by the Su preme Court of Florida. The state court upheld the Florida statute requiring Bible reading and prayer in public schools. THE FLORIDA court said the law’s purpose was “secular rather than sectarian” and thus did not violate the First Amend ment’s ban on an establishment of religion. In both 1962 and 1963 the U.S. Supreme Court handed down controversial rulings on pray er in public schools. Its 1962 decision barred a brief nonsec tarian prayer recited in New York state schools. Last year the court ruled against recita- ARNOLD VIEWING Tom Jones 9 Great? BY JAMES W. ARNOLD Of the many possible reactions to “Tom Jones,” it seems to me that at least two are wrong: one, that is a great film, and two, that it is a deplor able film. The first opinion would be based on producer-director Tony Richardson's vast skill as a movie-maker, the second on the film's unrelenting use of immoral sexual action as a source of humor. Finding tenable middle ground is not easy. For the film fancier who is also a man of faith, “Tom Jones” seems designed as a final test of theory. If the movie were the product 6? lesser talents, the moral quest ion would be far less sticky. BUT IT IS beautifully done, and secular critics whose idea of beauty covers only technique have the enviable, uncomplicat ed task of simply cataloguing its excellences. The task Is widespread, for the film seems destined to sweep every award in sight. The job would start with Richardson’s use of the camera as his primary tool in story-telling. Characters speak to the lens, glance at it furtively, wink at it, cover it. The camera is always mov ing, sometimes at fantastic speeds. Cuts from image to image and scene to scene are appro priately rhythmic and meaningful, using every known device from the freeze (a frame held for several seconds, like a still photo) and montage (succession of superimposed images) to the speed-up (herky-jerk oldtime movie effect) and the iris-out (the screen blacks out except for a small circle on one item of interest). -Each scene has its appropriate color and dis tinctive instruments in the musical background. Each scene is shot from a half-dozen angles and distances. In one magnificent hunt sequences Richardson cuts, often instantaneously, from heli copter shots of a fleeing deer to blurred front closeups of horses, dogs and humans, to shots from sationary ground points, from saddles, from tracks parallel to the moving action. Rich ardson also favors the wobbly, hand-held camera, which projects the viewer into the middle of act ion that never holds still for full perception. THE ARTISTIC effect is inevitably either excit ement (from the high-tempo cutting and “feel” of motion) or comedy (by placing together images that don’t logically go together). “Tom Jones” is clearly a movie; it affects its audience cinema- tically. The only possible complaint is that Richard son has been artsycraftsy: he has drawn attent ion from the material to himself. The argument here Is false. The tricks are not foisted on the material but naturally suggested by It; they do not intrude, but add to the joy of the viewer who is following the girls and horses and not the camera. Unfortunately, the film draws its comedy from the incongruity of man’s human and animal ap- petities, chiefly sexual. The sympathetic hero (Albert Finney, here boyish and wide-eyed) has only one weakness, but he indulges it frequently, with gusto, and with no ill effects. There are so many hay piles, bedrooms and meaningful glances that Richardson is genuinely taxed to find new ways of photographing them. IT IS USEFUL here to ask two questions: is sin treated, at least by implication, as sin? could the sexual scenes be considered immorally tempt ing? The first answer is that sin here is always funny, always ridiculed. The people who indulge in it are not meant to be envied. But they are shown as better than the falsely virtuous hypo crites with whom they are contrasted. Here sexual license (and gluttony) are venial, “natural” sins; the mortal sins are the calculated ones; hypo crisy and meanness of spirit. LITURGICAL WEEK Penance For The Renewal CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 MARCH 4 WEDNESDAY, 3RD WEEK IN LENT. We who prepare to celebrate the Church’s init iation rites at the Easter Vigil today hear God’s commandments of the Old Testament—those com- mandaments which are not put aside but fulfill ed in the new covenant. As the First Reading gives us the comman dments, the Gospel demands that we respond with more than a merely external performance, with an Interior assent of our free wills. MARCH 5 THURSDAY, 3RD WEEK IN LENT. The Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on pub lic worship places an emphasis on preaching which may be startling to some. , . and even unwelcome news. Yet preaching, the proclamation of the good news, was the great Physician's task during His public ministry (Gospel) and is a major work of all who would heal humanity in His wake and in His name. Both lessons are concerned with this message, and with the all-important fact that it is God’s. MARCH 6 FRIDAY, 3RD WEEK IN LENT. Water as a means of life, in both First Read ing and Gospel, is a symbol of baptism and of the kingdom of God’s sons in which “true wor shipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth” (Gospel). Our desire at all times, but especially during Lent, must be a thirst for “living water,” a thirst for the water of divine life in Christ. This is the water which satisfies the dee* "t aspriations of man, puzzling to those who attempt to quench their thirst at more shallow fountains. MARCH 7 SATURDAY, 3rd WEEK IN LENT. God’s justice is not the limited justice and the senseless violence of man and of human society. Both Susanna (First Reading) and the woman guilty of adultery (Gospel) are saved from death or human recrimination by God's intervention. In them we see figures of those who are about to be received into the Church, upon whom our Father is to pour His life and love through Jesus Christ, with whom we fast in preparation. tion of the Lord’s Prayer and Bible reading in schools in Maryland and Pennsylvania on the grounds that these practices violate the First Amendment. THE FLORIDA case was be fore the high court last June when it ruled on the Maryland and Pennsylvania cases. In stead of dealing with it direct ly, however, the court remand ed it to the state Supreme Court for a second look. But the second time around the state court upheld the con tested law as it had done before. THE FLORIDA Supreme Court’s first ruling in the case came in August, 1962. At that time the state court barred cer tain religious practices from public schools, including the celebration of religious holi days in schools, the use of school facilities for after-hours religious instruction classes, and the showing of religious movies on school property. But the state court also up held recitation of the Lord’s Prayer and Bible reading in public schools, along with the practice of holding baccalau reate services and requiring students and teachers to state their religious affiliation. UPON REMAND, the Florida court last January again upheld the prayer and Bible reading statute and declined to deal with the other practices on the grounds that the record of the case did not show whether the pupils involved had actually been affected by them. In ruling in favor of prayer and Bibe reading, the state high court said the objective of the law that requires them is secu lar rather than religious. ENACTED IN 1925, the Flori da law says it is “in the inte rest of good moral training, of a life of honorable thought and good ctizenship that the pub lic school children should have lessons of morality brought to their attention during their school days.” The Florida court also said it would be “more fitting” for any further action in the case to come from the U. S. high court. IN ANNOUNCING the appeal maneuvers by the Miami par ents, the American Jewish Con gress said Pfeffer “is expected to make” these arguments be fore the Supreme Court: —That there is "no substan tial difference” between the Florida prayer and Bible read ing law and the Maryland and Pennsylvania practices which the high court held to be un constitutional last June. —THAT THE public school baccalaureate programs are “permeated with religious ex ercises” which are “an un constitutional infringement on religious freedom and Church- State separation.” —That requiring job appli cants and teachers to state their religious affiliation is unconsti tutional in light of a 1962 Su preme Court ruling against state-imposed religious quali fications for public office. Papal Message VATICAN CITY (NC)-In- formal Vatican sources have confirmed that Pope Paul VI has sent a message to Premier Nikita Khrushchev of the U. S. S. R. acknowledging receipt of a peace message the Soviet leader sent to all heads of state on Dec. 31. God Love You BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN Our Blessed Lord fed the multitude who followed Him into the desert and then talked to them about the Eucharist. He fed their hunger of body, then their hunger of soul. Some such procedure has to be followed in many mission lands. One missionary informed us that it took him a full year to find land on which to start a mission. Everyone in the neighborhood declared himself ready to help, but they also told him there was not a single inch of land j to be sold. “I, myself, could see a lot of useless, uncultivated land,” the missionary wrote, “but you would think it pure gold because the owners would not sell it at any price. This was their way of say- jj ing, “Who are you? What doj you want? We don’t trust you and we don’t want you.’ “When I was at the end of my jj rope, God opened a door. Some- i one in the village, knowing I f had a dispensary, had told one of the older men that I was a first-class doctor who could perform miracles with my medicines from abroad. The old man’s son was dying; all administrations of the sorcerers had failed, and the boy became weaker every day. “Since the boy was the only son and heir, the father was willing to pay any price to have him cured. I found him in despe rate condition, suffering from dysentery, fever and anemia. Much of God’s help would be needed to save his life. The parents agreed that I must try. I stayed with him for three days, and the antibiotics performed a real miracle. After this, many sick were brought to my tent. The only limit to my activity was the small quantity of medicines. “Without saying anything, people understood that if I could get a piece of land, I would open a dispensary and give them medi cine which they had never had before. The next evening, some of the elders came and gave me some very fine land at a reas onable price. After two years, I built a church. Not after eight years, it is a promising parish.” The corporal works of mercy are, in the underpriviledged lands, the condition of spiritual works. With us in the United States it is different. Itis our Faith which must dictate our works; it is ourlove of Christ which must inspire self-denial to bring food to the starving. How does your Faith measure up to this test? Answer that question by sending your sacrifices to TheSoc- iety for the Propagation of the Faith. GOD LOVE YOU to Mr. and Mrs. J. L. C. for $6 ”My husband gave up smoking after 20 years! Here is the first installment of the money he would have spent on cigarettes.” . . .to A. W. for $5 “I promised this to the Missions if my favor was granted and it was.” .... to Mrs. E. R. for $100 “For the education of a priest in Africa.” . . . toM. M. for $169.62 “This is the sum of all my loose change this year. You who are Interested in missionary activities throughout the world will want to read MISSION, a bi-monthly publication featuring stories, pictures and details of our Holy Father's Mis sions. Send a request to be put on our mailing list, alolng withyour sacrifice. 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. 0. Box 12047 Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga.