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PAGE 2 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. Oifaattut MOTOR HOTEL FREE PARKINS • TV Ik AIR CONDITIONING • FAMOUS MIAMI SUFFCT • ICE R BEVERAGE STATION* • COFFEE MAKER. EACH ROOM Hmrry Donohut, Mmnmg H* •r Am.rlc»n E«pr.»« Credit Cards Accaptad LUCKIE AT CONE ST. A Good Address In Atlanta 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 D'YOUVILLE ACADEMY'S Glee at 4146 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd. Club. Club gave concert last Saturday on the Academy grounds Chamblee.rs. Warren Taylor is the director of the Glee NELSON RIVES REALTY 3669 CLAIRMONT ROAD CHAMBLEE, GEORGIA REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE SALES, RENTALS RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY PHONE: 451-2323 Raps White Moderates CLEVELAND (NC) — Air Force Capt. Edward J. Dwight, Jr„ America's only Negro as tronaut, told the Greater Cleve 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. JUHAN'S CLEANERS Expert • Psrsonaltied ferric* Olven to Every Garment Coming Mo Our Plant US N. Male ft. PO. 1.4444 Cades* Park. Oa. 1964 PILGRIMAGE SHRINES of EUROPE July 21 to August 11, Sponsored By The Georgia Bulletin RESERVATIONS WRITE TO! CATHOLIC TRAVEL OFFICE DUPONT CIRCLE BUILDING WASHINGTON 6, D.C. 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Oh, Mriditor, for our sake To get heaven, which pill shall we take: Thebove poem was inspired by the blaring headlines, "Ac cepts! to Church, Family Planning 'Pill' Near, Cardinal De clare ’ on the front page of the May 14 issue. To add confusion to theurrent question, 'To Pill or Not to Pill," we turned to pageiven and read "Bishops Birth Pill Ban Brings Mixed Reac tions* As mothers of growing families we are keenly aware of the ute problems of married life, yet we question at this time the e of such misleading and sensational headlines. THE THREE PILLS, MRS. MILO FABIAN MRS. HARRY GERNAZIAN MRS. B. N. WEAVER ECTOR'S NOTE: The headlines in question were neither mis- leiing nor sensational. They reflected the essence of the stories, Wdo not make the news, we simply report it. termites all ^ e a r ’round I’M SORRY T ASKE0 HIM ABOUT THE SERVICE AT THE RIVIERA RESTAURANT. TO THE EDrTOR: How thrilling to read of your experience at an inter-faith event in Cedar Rapids, Iowal That Catholics, Protestants; and Orthodox congregations could and did join in a service in honor of Pentecost, in which all shared the platform and pul pit, should be a real eye-open er for many, many who are unaware of how much we do share as Christians. JEAN LOMBARDI ATLANTA, NE. m. Terence Brien KNOWS LIFE rifS/ INSURANCE m * ffet. Suite 715 270 Pchtr..Bldg. N. W. At , Ga. Home BU 4-1191 Office 688-2600 Southland Life -tAf—. SL INSURANCE Home 0<*<ce COMPANY Southland Center • Dallas Office Equipment Business Machines / Sales-Service-Supplies HY3VUS PHONE 525-6417 PHONE 525-6417 172 WHITEHALL STREET, S.W. ATLANTA 3, GEORGIA 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 BRANAN & SCHMITZ REALTY CO. 4641 Roswell Rd. N. E. Atlanta, Georgia 255-7770 BUYING OR SELLING A HOUSE? contact Branan & Schmitz for qualified personal service! Specialists in AREAS I & II - Residential Sales - Acreage - Insurance - Leases VATICAN CITY (NC) —Pope 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 .