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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1964
NON SECTARIAN LEADERS
Plan For Pacem
In Terris Study
RACINE, Wis. (NC) — The
means to coexistence among
nations of different ideological
and social systems will be the
first item on the agenda when
700 diplomats, scientists, gov
ernment leaders and church
men meet to discuss the Pacem
in Terris encyclical of Pope
John XXIII in New York next
Feb. 18-20.
The preliminary agenda for
the conference was decided upon
in a three-day meeting here
(May 17-19), sponsored by the
Center for the Study of Demo
cratic Institutions, a non-sec
tarian organization with head
quarters in Santa Barbara,
Calif.
MORE THAN 20 world, church
and government leaders decid
ed here that coexistence should
be their first concern. Among
the other topics they listed for
Confirms During
Pontifical Mass
CAMDEN, N.J. (NC)--A Con
firmation ceremony was woven
into the ritual of the Mass for
the first time here by Arch
bishop Celestine J. Damiano,
Bishop of Camden.
The prelate offered a Ponti
fical Mass in the Cathedral of
the Immaculate Comception
here, during which he adminis
tered Confirmation to 108 stu
dents of St. Mary's elementary
school and eight adults.
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discussion were;
—How to achieve sufficient
flexibility so that all interna
tional conflicts can be settled
by negotiation, and how to de
vise mechanisms for peaceful
social and political change.
—How to obtain recognition
of the urgent need for rapid
progress toward nuclear and
conventional disarmament.
—How to take actions and de
velop understanding to create
mutual trust among nations.
—How to utilize international
cooperation, as well as science
and technology, for developing
nations.
—How to eliminate racism in
all nations.
—And, finally, how to de
velop and strengthen the United
Nations,
THE MEETING here, as will
the one in New York, brought
together persons from all poli
tical ideologies and religious
backgrounds. Some members
pointed out that several state
ments on the meaning of co
existence made by Nikita Khru-
schchev are parallel to those
of Pope John "in significant re
spects."
Among participants here were
Father John F. Cronin, S.S.,
assistant director of the Social
Action Department, National
Catholic Welfare Conference,
and Msgr. Luigi Ligutti, perma
nent observer of the Holy See
to the U.N. Food and Agricul
ture Organization.
THE PRELIMINARY meet
ing was held at the suggestion
of Ralph Bunche, U.N. under
secretary for special political
affairs, and C. V. Narasimban
of the executive office of the
U.N. secretary general. Its pur
pose was to prepare agenda for
the New York conference.
PRINCE EDWARD SCHOOLS
Supreme Court’s Order
Ends Virginia Segregation
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land Catholic Interracial Coun
cil here that the greatest ob
stacle to Negro equality is the
"white moderate."
Dwight, a Catholic, declared
(May 17) that such groups as
the white citizens councils and
the Ku Klux Klan are compara
tively minor difficulties. But
he added:
"AMERICA has too many of
those moderates who absolutely
refuse to concern themselves
or believe a problem exists.
They sit back in apathy and
watch minorities suppressed by
bigots. That sort of do-nothing
Just Negro America.
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WASHlNGTON-(NC) TheU. S.
Supreme Court, in a ruling ring
ing ’with patience at: the plodd
ing tempo of school integration,
has outlawed a plan under which
a county in Virginia closed its
public schools to avoid desegre
gation.
In doing so (May 25) almost
exactly 10 years after its or
iginal school integration de
cision of May 17,1954, the court
angrily echoed its language of a
decade ago and said "the time
for mere 'deliberate speed’has
run out" in implementing the
mandate it handed down then.'
THE CASE that occasioned
the high court's new ruling came
from Prince Edward County,
Va„ point of origin of one of
the cases that led to the land
mark decision 10 years ago.
Justice Hugo L. Black, speak
ing for a unanimous court,
said the right of Negro stu
dents in the county to equal
protection of the laws under the
14th Amendment had been vio
lated in view of the fact that:
—Public schools in every
other county in Virginia re
main open.
—The county and state have
given financial assistance to
white students to attend pri
vate, nonsectarian schools
which are segregated.
JUSTICE Black said it was
evident that the county closed
its public school in 1959 "for
one reason and one reason only"
—' to avoid integration.
"Whatever nonracial grounds
might support a state's allowing
a county to abandon public
schools," he said, "the object
must be a constitutional one,
and grounds of race and op
position to desegregation do not
qualify as constitutional,"
THE COURT directed a Fede
ral District Court handling the
case to do everything re
quired to secure the rights of
Negro students, including
if need be issuing an order to
reopen the public schools.
Recent statistics give point
to the court's impatience over
tardy or nonexistent compliance
with its 1954 desegregation
ruling. A study by the South
ern School News, a Nashville,
Tenn., publication specializing
in reports on school integra
tion, shows that by the end of
the 1954-*64 decade, fewer than
10% of Negro public elementary
and secondary school students
in southern and border states
were attending classes with
whites.
FOR THE border states the
figure was 281,731 Negroes in
integrated schools— 54.8% of
the total. But in the 11 Southern
states, there were only 34,110
Negro students in integrated
schools—1.18% of the total.
During the past decade South
ern legislatures adopted almost
450 laws and resolutions deal
ing with desegregation—most
of them aimed at delaying or
limiting entrance of Negroes
into schools with whites. More
than 300 lawsuits dealing with
school integration and related
issues have been filed in state
and Federal courts in the South
in that period.
AT THE same time it decid
ed the Prince Edward case,
the Supreme Court remanded to
a distric court for further study
a dispute over plans for gra
dual school desegregation in
Atlanta, Ga. It said so in view
of new regulations on the ques
tion adopted in April by the
Atlanta school board.
In Prince Edward County, lit
igation first began as far back
as 1951, when a group of
Negro students filed suit against
Virginia school segregation
laws.
ALTHOUGH the Supreme
Court ruled in their favor in
1954, county and state officials
continued to seek ways of main
taining segregation. After var
ious maneuvers, the county fin
ally closed down its pub
lic schools in 1959.
From then until 1963, Ne
gro students in the county
were without formal educa
tion. Meanwhile, white pupils
attended private, nonsectarian
schools. A variety of county
and state measures were adopt
ed to aid them, including tui
tion grants and a property tax
credit up to 25% for contri
butions to their schools.
AN OFFER to set up private
schools for colored children in
the county was rejected, the
Negroes preferring to continue
their legal fight to obtain in
tegrated public education.
The Federal District Court
ruled against the tuition grant
and tax credit plans and later
held that the county could not
close its public schools to avoid
integration while the state al
lowed public schools in other
counties to remain open. How
ever, the Virginia Court of Ap
peals reversed the District
Court's rulings,
TAKING NOTE of this long
history of litigation and legis
lation, Justice Black comment
ed that "the issues here im
peratively call for decision
now."
‘ The case has been delayed
since 1951 by resistance at the
state and county level, by leg-
islation, and by law suits," he
said. 'The original plaintiffs
have doubtless all passed high
school age. There has been in-
tirely to o much deliberation
and notenough speed in enforc
ing the constitutional rights
which we held in Brown V. Bo
ard of Education (the 1954 de
cision) had been denied Prince
Edward County Negro chil
dren."
AMONG THE intervenors in
the case on the Negroes’ side
was Citizens for Educational
Freedom, a national organiza
tion engaged in seeking equal
treatment by the state in finan
cial matters for students in-
both public and nonpublic sch
ools.
CEF’s amicus curiae (Friend
of the Court) brief said th;>
Prince Edward tuition grant
plan theoretically represented
"an important step in foster
ing educational freedom" by
encouraging "diversity" in ed
ucation.
BUT, IT added, "if everyone
is subsidized in the choice of a
school except he would chooses
a school with a religious af
filiation; except he who -
would cross the county line; ex
cept this person or that, we
open a whole Pandora's box of
prejudices."
MRS. EDNA Whire, cafeteria manager for Our Lady of the As
sumption, Atlanta, and Mrs. Lilian Milne, manager for SS.
Peter and Paul, Decatur, are shown at the recent three-day
convention in the Biltmore for Georgian lunch supervisors are
cafeteria managers. SS. Peter and Paul and St. Mary's, Rome,
were among the 43 Georgia schools honored for 100% student
participation in the lunch program.
DIVINE PRAISES
Pope Clarifies
Prayer Change
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Paul VI has explained that he
ordered inserted in the Divine
Praises a prayer to the Holy
Spirit because he felt the Third
Person of the Trinity has been
overlooked too often in popular
devotion.
The Pope disclosed his rea
sons during a regular Wednes
day general audience (May 20),
Speaking of the recently ob
served feast of Pentecost, the
Pope reminded his listeners
that, as they knew, "we have
wished to introduce, among
those prayers which take their
name from the first prayer
'Blessed be God,* a prayer to
the Holy Spirit: 'Blessed be
the Holy Spirit, the Para
clete.’ "
Lay Workers
Retirement Plan
NEW ORLEANS (NC)—Adop
tion of a retirement plan for
more than 2,000 fulltime lay
employes of the Archdiocese of
New Orleans was announced by
Archbishop John P. Cody, ad
ministrator of the archdiocese.
e—....... P^* n > retroactive to last
last year where, after recall- Jan. 1, covers lay employes of
ing the ' all deliberate speed’ all parishes and some archdio-
norm of 1954, it commented cesan agencies, including teach-
that "the context in which we ers in Catholic elementary
must interpret and apply this schools. Archbishop Cody sai
language to plans for desegre- the full cost f or retirement
gation has been significantly benefits are being paid by ie
altered" by the passing of time, archdiocese.
But, even while remanding
and acknowledging Atlanta’s
' ‘Commendable effort" to effect
integration, it put the district
court on notice that it must
test the Atlanta plan by the
standards set forth in its Prince
Edward decision and other de-
segregation rulings.
POINTEDLY the court quot
ed language from one of these
HE SAID he wanted to do this
to fill a gap which occurs "un
fortunately too frequently in
popular piety, which forgets to
Pay tribute to the Holy Spirit,
God, die Third Person of the
Most Blessed Trinity, and com
municated to us as the supreme
gift of the love-of God." After
the insertion of the new prayer,
the Pope said, there is now "an
explicit and fervent prayer"
and a "more worthy expression
for worship of the Holy Sprit."
At the end of the usual dis
course, Pope Paul switched to
German to address a group of
500 pilgrims from Silesia, a
former German province now
politically divided between
Poland and Czechoslovakia,
and told them that "the Church
knows the concerns which af
flict you and your sons and
implores God to grant all the
graces you need to be able to
bear difficulties with Christian
resignation and with hope in
divine providence, so that they
may become sources of
abundant merits for eternity.
"THE CHURCH understands
you and at the same time re
cognizes all the good which you
have accomplished in y° ur ne f
surroundings. Rest assured,
beloved sons and daughters, that
we Pray for you and that we
recommend you to great
goodness of God, We entrust you
‘““■ep rotec[lon „(St.Hedwig,
wh » i* greatly ven«r aledby ^ ou .
Imitate your divine patron in
faith and religious * ea .