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IN MARYLAND THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3 IN AN INDIAN village, a Medical Mission Sister-doctor stops to check a sick baby. Combining pro- fessional skill with Christian kindness, she tries to make tangible the joyous message of the Re demption. MEDICAL MISSION SISTERS Universal Sick Apostolate Motivated by their love for God and men and equipped to bear this love effectively to the sick of the world, the Medi cal Mission Sisters of Philadel phia today carry on their apos tolate of service to the Univer sal Church. They aim to bring the benefits of modern medi cine to those in greatest need, as a tangible expression of Christ's love and concern for the sick all times. They are women who care be cause whole villages in India are still wiped out by epidemics of cholera and typhoid fever, because the average life expec tancy in Pakistan is abut 37 years as compared to our "over. YUCATAN, Mexico (NC) — "It’s too expensive to get mar ried in the Church, Padre I" Too often this was the reply of prospective brides when Father Thomas O'Rourke, M.M. of New York asked if they were having a Church wedding. The veteran Maryknoller did a little investigating. "WHAl THE most expen- »ive item for a wedding?" he asked the eligible girls. Italy Protests ROME (NC)--Christian Dem ocrat members of the Italian Chamber of Deputies have call ed on the Italian government to protest to the United Nations concerning the treatment and expulsion of missionaries from the Sudan. 70" mark, because Ghana has still to compaign against lepro sy, because in some areas in Vietnam there is one doctor for 50,000 people; because the Unit ed States despite its high stan dards of medical and hospital care has poorly distributed fa cilities for the care of its people. Founded in 1925 by Mother Anna Dengel, M D., in Wash ington, D. C., the Society of Catholic-Medical Missionaries now number over 700 Sisters with houses in 19 countries and 5 continents. The Sisters are trained as doctors, nurses, pharmacists, X-ray and labora tory technicians. Others study hospital administration, secre- Service "The wedding dress 1" was the unanimous response. "It costs more than everything else comhfhed," The next stop for Father O'Rourke was the ladles' dress shop, where an amazed shop keeper filled his order for two of the largest wedding gowns in the store. Within minutes, the Priest had established the first wedding gown rental service in town. •THE GOWNS can be cut down to size," he said, "but it would be better if all the brides were tall and hefty." Father O’Rourke now has a long waiting list of prospective brides wanting to get married in the Church. tarial work, dietetics, etc. in order to completely staff their own hospitals around the world. The American Province with headquarters in Fox Chase, Philadelphia, Is under the care of Mother M. Benedict Young, M.D., who is responsible for its membership and overseas ope rations in India, East and West Pakistan, Uganda, Ghana, South Vietnam and Venezuela, as well as for its work in the v United States. THE IMMEDIATE impetus to the establishment of the Medical Mission Sisters was the vast amount of unrelieved and pre ventable suffering which came daily to Mother Dengel during her years of medical work as a lay doctor in India. Responding to the great need which could only be alleviated by many more skilled hands and a continuity of medical care, the Society was established in the United States. It was the first Sisterhood to combine the religious life with the medical profession. Today, for the many who come to their mission hospitals with burning fevers, severe ane mias, racking coughs, intesti nal parasites, there are scien tific tests to help diagnose and specific medicines to cure; for the many who need surgery, there are trained hands com petent to cut away diseased p. rts and repair damage; for the child-bearing mothers there are careful examinations, ap propriate diet, vitamins and the security of professional as sistance at the time of delivery; for the emaciated, hungry babies, there is milk aplenty, love and tender care. For all, no matter of what race, creed, class or condition, there is kindness, concern, an effort made to serve; a Christian example. IN FOURTEEN of the Medical Mission Sisters’ larger hospi tals, the young people of the host countries are being trained as registered nurses, midwives, X-ray and laboratory techn- clans. Interns and residency programs are carried on in these institutions, offering val uable experience and guidance to young national doctors with in the framework of a Catholic hospital. In the United States the Medi cal Mission Sisters have insti tutions in Philadelphia, Penn sylvania, Washington, D C., St. Louis, Missouri, Mountain View, California, Santa Fe, New . Mexico, and are right now build ing the Holy Family Hospital in Atlanta. The Holy Family Hospital is scheduled to open Li the Fall of 1964 providing Atlanta with a second Catholic Hospital. It is located at Fairbum and Sewell Roads, S. W. on a 90-acre wood ed site that will allow for the expansion which the future needs of Atlanta will dictate. Already seventeen Sisters have been assigned to the staff of this hospital. Some of them will come to Atlanta during this coming summer to assist with preparations for opening in the Fall. One of the hopes of the Medical Mission Sisters is that this hospital will bring to the attention of Catholic girls in the Archdiocese of Atlanta the tremendous world-wide Medical Mission Apostolate. All vocation inquiries should be directed to the Medical Mis sion Sisters, 8400 Pine Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111. 71}*afi fJor rjCtnt MOUTH-WATERING Catch HOT PISH SANDWICH No-bone fillet, topped with Burger Chef's own special tartar sauce. Try one! Alps Road-Opposite BEECHWOOD SHOPPING CENTER Athens, Ga. kf l«'{ M IfUtm. M 1 Home of ilu> Worlds Groafost 15C Hamburger! PRIEST OPERATES Wedding Gowns Rental A ccomodations Law Is Passed BALTIMORE —• Archbishop Lawrence J. 'Shehan of Balti more has hailed enactment of a statewide public accomoda-- tions law "will remove much of the cause of the racial distur bances which have afflicted our own state in recent years." The Archbishop and other re ligious leaders backed the bill before its passage (March 14) by the General Assembly in An-, napolis. Shortly before the bill’s enactment, joint Catho- lic-Protestant - Jewish en dorsement was voiced in a tele gram to Gov. J. Millard Tawes, with Archbishop Shehan the Catholic signer. THE CATHOLIC Review, Baltimore archdiocesan news paper, also supported the leg islation editorially. The new measure extends to all 23 Maryland counties and the city of Baltimore a 1963 public accommodations act which had applied to only 11 countries and the city. It forbids the management of. hotels, motels and restaurants to refuse service on the basis of "race, creed, color or nat ional origin. Complaints of dis crimination are to be taken to the court if it cannot settle it by mediation. Violations are punishable by a fine of up to $300 for each offense. The measure specifically ex-, empts bars, taverns and cock tail lounges from its provis ions. PASSAGE of the bill came against a background of nat ionally publicized civil rights protests in Maryland which have focused particularly on the Eastern Shore communities of Cambridge and Princess Anne and on Annapolis itself. Last June, National Guards men were called out to halt racial violence in Cambridge, and the Guard remains on duty there. More recently, use of police dogs to quell demonstra tions in Princess Anne pro voked wide criticism from civil rights advocates and others. The public accommodations is- Bogus ‘Priest’ The Bishop of Owerri, Ni geria, has written to Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, National Di rector of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, in forming him that a fraudulent priest, "Father Julius", is so liciting mission funds here in the U. S. Letters and parcels containing dollars, medals, prayer books, etc. have arrived in Owerri, apparently as a re sult of an appeal made by "Father Julius" in the Catho lic Home Messenger. PRIEST STATES sue was involved in both places. Maryland is the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line to enact a public accommoda tions law. The crucial fight in the Gene ral Assembly was over an at tempt to exempt four of Mary land’s Eastern Shore countles- Dorchester, Worcester, Kent and Queen Annes—from the bill’s provisions. Such as exemption is common in Mary land when a county’s assembly delegation seeks it under a tra dition of legislative courtesy. Gov. Tawes and backers of the bill, however, strongly op posed the exemptions in this case. They prevailed first in the House, which by a vote of 83- 50 rejected the Senate-approv ed exemptions, and then in the Senate, which concurred in the House action by a vote of 22- 7. Final enactment came in the Senate, 26-3. FORMS CO-OP ‘Coffee Boosts HUEHUETENANGO, Guatemala (NC) — An American missioner who learned all about coffee beans on his vacation establish ed a coffee marketing cooperat ive here that has doubled the income of his people. Father Edward L. Doheny of Milwaukee, decided to form the coffee cooperative which he found out that the people in his parish were losing money since they did not know the differences in coffee quality and ''»lue. WHEN THE missionary be came pastor of San Antonio Huista, a town of some 5,000 people living in the green high lands of northern Guatemala, he found out that his parish- oners grew anywhere from 500 to 20,000 pounds of coffee on their family-owned plots. He also learned that these growers were getting very low prices from coffee buyers be cause they did not know how much the coffee they grew was worth and had to take the word of the middlemen to whom they sold their products. FATHER DOHENY decided then to form a coffee market ing cooperative. When he ar rived in San Antonio the people received as little as $12 per hundred pounds of coffee. Last year the cooperative averaged $24 per hundred pounds. This year, Father Doheny feels, the 200 familiesJhere will receive even higher prices for their Pope John Hit Discrimination HUNTINGTON, Ind. (NC)—At least ten citations from Pope John XXIII’s encyclical Pacem in Terris can be used to dem onstrate the document's con demnation of racial discrimi nation, a social action leader has written. Father John F. Cronin, S.S., assistant director of the Social Action Department, National Catholic Welfare Conference, offers the analysis in an article on Pope John’s attitude on race relations in the Our Sunday Visitor newspaper (March 22). "THE MIND of Pope John is clear; men are equal in dig nity and racial discrimination violates their natural rights," he asserts after quoting pas sages on human rights, inter national relations, social pro tections and legal safeguards to Father Cronin examines the question of timing to explain the approach of the Church to racial matters recently. "WHEN COMPLEX social changes are involved," he writes, "the question of timing becomes important. One of the American Archbishops quietly and firmly desegregated the schools of his archdiocese in 1946 and was widely acclaimed for his heroism. The same Archbishop, now a Cardinal, in 1963 took a number of far- reaching steps in the civil rights field, yet his actions were hard ly noticed by the press. What would have seemed revolution ary five years ago is common place today," Father Cronin continues; "But these steps are commonplace only because quiet pressure and persistent education made peo ple ready to accept (leadership. Because the Church was trying, in an undramatic way, to aid the Negro during the last century, it can now move forward rapid ly in the struggle for full equa lity and the complete recogni tion of his rights. "OUR BISHOPS first chose to give the Negro his due within the Church itself. When the time was ripe, they faced the broad er problem of his position with in civil society. As with Pope Pius XII and the Jews, they had to decide when to act quietly and when to speak in tones of thunder." TERRY ETTEL of Troop 148, B.S.A., sponsored by St. John’s Church, Hapeville, has received the Ad Altare Dei medal. He is shown with Fr. D.F. Dullea, assistant pastor of St.John’s. Frank Milewski is Scoutmaster, Peachtree Road Pharmacy Pick Up and Delivery, Service' $ Call CE 7-6466 \ ‘ 4062 Peachtree Rd. Atlanta NELSON RIVES REALTY INC. 36o9 CLAIRMONT ROAD CHAMBLEE. GEORGIA real Estate, insurance { SALES,'RENTALS RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY PHONE: 451-2323 TERMITES SWARMING? Priest’ Economy total production of a halt-mll- ion pounds. At first, not knowing much about coffee, Father Doheny spent one of his vacation per iods studying the various phases of coffee culture. Now he can tell by looking at a dried coffee bean at what alti tude it was grown and what price it should bring. Through the pastor’s efforts the San Antonio cooperative also has its own nurseries raising new coffee trees to improve the production further. THE PEOPLE in the co operative have learned to de mand the proper prices when they sell locally. If they don’t get the right price, they trans port the coffee to the port for sale themselves. Coffee growing is vital not only to San Antonio Huista’s economy but to the whole of Guatemala as well. About 60% of Guatemala’s exports is cof fee. Fluctuations in the price of coffee in the last decade have contributed to increasing Inflation in Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Haiti and Braxil, countries whose major export is coffee. 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