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YOUR PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of Atlanta SERVING GEORGIA'S NORTHERN COUNTIES VOL 2 NO 35 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1964 $5.00 PER YEAR IN ARCHDIOCESE John M. Howley Secretary For Social Services DELEGATES from Atlanta to the Liturgical Week in St. Louis are shown above. Conference, including clergy and laity, met to THIS SATURDAY consider changes in liturgy arising from Vatican Council II. Masses in English were a feature of the Convention, National Council Speaker Will Keynote ACCW Convention Meet • See picture, page 6 The Board of Directors of Catholic Social Services of Met ropolitan Atlanta, Inc„ announ ces the appointment of John M, Howley, Jr„ to the position of executive secretary. Mr. How ley, a native of Decatur, Illi nois, received an A.B, Degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Master’s Degree from the Tulane University School of Social Work, For the past five years he has been as sociated with the Children’s Center of Metropolitan Atlanta. Howley is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers, National Association of Social Workers, BoardofDi- rectors o! the Georgia Confer ence on Social Welfare, and the Atlanta Social Workers Club, He is rmrried to the former Mary Ellen Rich, of Atlanta, and they have two daughters, Eileen and Ann. The Howleys are mem bers of St, Jude the Apostle Parish, Mrs, Daniel Walter McIntyre, case worker, has been added to the staff of Catholic Social Ser vices. Mrs. McIntyre is a mem ber of Christ the King Parish, Catholic Social Services is a Community Chest agency and among its services deals with problems of Juvenile delinquen cy, the aged, unwed mothers, and provides marriage coun seling and limited relief ser vices. Besides the Community Chest it is supported by a do- MISSISSIPPI Pfi/EST: ■ ' NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC)— Negro converts are entering the Catholic Church in the U. S. at a higher rate than whites, a Negro missionary priest stat ed here. Father Harold R. Perry, S. V. D„ provincial superior of the Society of the Divine Word in Bay St. Louis, Miss., told the 21st annual Catholic Stu- Poverty Fight PHILADELPHIA (RNS)— An archdiocesan Planning Com mission for the War on Pov erty was established heere by Archbishop John J, Krol of Philadelphia. nation from the Diocese of At lanta, income from trust funds which provide financial assis tance for special education for boys and girls, and the Good Samaritan Fund, The latter is provided by individuals wishing to contribute to the many needs of the agency. Donations may be sent to: Good Samaritan Fund, Catholic Social Services, 1207 Carnegie Building, Atlanta, Georgia - 30303, The offices moved last week to the above address. Rev. Walter Donovan is Exe cutive Director of Catholic So cial Services, Members of the Board of Directors are: Mrs, Battey Schwab, president; Rob ert Troutman, vice president; Michael Egan, vice president; Leon S, Kaniecki, secretary; H, J. Donohue, treasurer; Louis C. Amann, Richard Azar, Jr,, Edward B, Baker, Myles Boothe, Dr, Reese Coleman, Gerard Deckbar, Henry L, de Give, John A, Ferguson, Dr, Richard P. French, Pauline Godwin, Walter Hamilton, Mar tin Handrick, Rawson Haverty, Mrs. Benjamin L. Jones, Rob ert E. Kennedy, Benjamin R, Petty, William F. Pfeiffer, Jo seph Salome, Dr. Patrick C. Shea, Jr„ Dr. Dorothy W, Sher- rer, Mrs. Paul N. Steenrod, Thomas E-, Zawroski, Ex Offi cio Mrs. R, L, Stephens. dents’ Mission Crusade conven tion that the number of Negrc Catholics increased by 3% last year while "the trend of the Church among the white popu lation has recently been in the other direction.’* FATHER Perry said (Aug. 29) there were 12,063 Negro con verts last year, which was 700 more than the year before. De spite this gain* he said, mis sion efforts "have but scrat ched the surface’* of the Negro apostolate. "There are 20 million Ne groes in the United States, but only 723,000 belong to the true Church of Jesus Christ. Miss Peg Roach, Chairman of the Social Action Division of the National Council of Catholic Women, will be the featured luncheon speaker at the eighth annual Atlanta ACCW Conven tion to be held at the Dinkier Plaza Hotel this Saturday, Sept, 5, Eugene Patterson, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, speak at the dinner Saturday evening. Miss Roach will address the convention on "Dialogue for Un derstanding’* in the broad sense of interracial and interreligious dialogue. She is thoroughly fa miliar with this field of social action,' having already accom plished much in organizing and coordinating diocesan pro grams relating to such broad areas as immigration, rural life, legislation and social prob lems. A GRADUATE of Mundelein College, Chicago, Miss Roach was active in the Chicago ACCW and did volunteer work at Ma- rillac House, a settlement for two and a half years until, "meeting head-on the human dilemma of poverty amid af fluence, loneliness and suffer ing by brother upon brother, she decided to join her efforts with those of the Little Brothers of the Poor, the Adult Education Centers and the Catholic In terracial Council.*’While in At lanta she will visit with her brother and his family, who are residents of this city. The Convention will begin at 10:30 a.m, on Saturday morn ing with a Pontifical Mass, of fered by Archbishop Paul J, Hallinan at Sacred Heart Church, Atlanta, Reservations can be made through local par ish representatives of the AC CW. The agenda for the con vention is as follows: SACRED HEART CHURCH, ATLANTA, GA. 10:30 - Pontifical Mass Celebrant: Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan ST. LOUIS (NC)— The Nati onal Catholic Rural Life Con ference served notice here it is going to push for collective bargaining by farmers at the marketplace and encourage withholding of farm products when necessary. It is only collective bargain ing that will protect the far mer’s income, now dependent totally on unjust supply and de mand, said Bishop Jpseph M. Marling, C.PP.S,, of Jefferson City, Mo. THE prelate, past president of the conference, delivered the major policy explanation at the group’s 40th anniversary convention here (Aug. 28). Farmers and existing farm organizations will have to sac rifice their traditional indivi dualism to gain bargaining power, but it is a sacrifice that must be made for the com mon good, the bishop said. AS FOR A raise in food prices if farmers attain genu ine bargaining, Bishop Marling said they could be "slightly higher,’* but he added that "laws could be framed to guar antee against unreasonable Installation of Officers DINKLER PLAZA HOTEL 11:30 - Registration (Free); Hotel Lobby Hostesses on hand to provide further directions, 12:30 - Luncheon ($2.75 per person) Speaker: Miss Peg Roach, Social Action Chairman, NCCW Address: "Dialogue For Un derstanding" 2:30 - Committee Workshops Developing theme of Conven tion, "Unity Through Under standing" Religious and/or lay speak ers scheduled for all five Work shops. 1. Organization and Develop ment prices.** Farmers should not fear pub lic reaction, the bishop said. "The American public is Just. It has no desire to prosper at the expense of others. A mod erate increase moreover, would still keep the cost of food on an American table notably Fr. McManus Liturgy Head ST. LOUIS (NC) — Father Frederick R. McManus, Catho lic University of America can on law professor and an advi ser to the new Vatican liturgy commission, was elected presi dent of the National Liturgical Conference. Election of the Boston priest came at the close of the 25th annual Liturgical Week here (ug. 27) , The election re turned Father McManus to the presidency of the conference af ter a two-year absence. He suc ceeds Father Gerard S. Sloyan, head of the department of reli gious education at Catholic Uni versity, who will continue to serve on the conference ad visory board. Chairman: Mrs. Herb T. Mall on 2. Spiritual Development: Chairman: Mrs, Thomas V, Boehm an 3. Family Education Chairman: Mrs. PaulTraina , 4. Community Action Chairman: Mrs. Glenn 1. Crowell. 5. World Responsibility Chairman: Mrs. Gene Lowe 4:30 - Business Meeting Mrs. Edward P, Faust, Jr„ Pres. Atlanta ACCW, presiding 5:30 - Social Hour (Husbands invited) 6:30 - Dinner (Husbands invit ed); $5.00 per person Speaker: Eugene Patterson, Editor, "Atlanta Constitution" below what must be paid for an inferior diet in even countries that, like our own, are techno logically advanced.** Of deliberate witholding of farm products in order to raise prices, a controversial ap proach tried experimentally in some commodities in recent years, Bishop Marling said the conference "approves and plans to give encouragement to with holding actions when they are necessary to beget a just farm income." "TO KEEP what is raised from the market in an effort to contract for a Just price is plainly within moral and ethical bounds and in harmony with papal teaching, but. as every one sees, it can be effective only if part of a great organi zation effort,** he said. Bishop Marling said the con ference will devote "its princi pal attention’* to cooperative bargaining, but he stressed it will not Ignore other issues, such as government aid, rural industry, problems of rural youth and distribution of U. S. surplus food to needy over seas. ARCHBISHOP HALLINAN and Father Walter Donovan, executive director of social services in the Archdiocese, meet with John M, Howley, Jr„ newly appointed executive secretary of Catholic Social Services of Metropolitan Atlanta, Inc! More Negro Than White Converts PROTECT INCOMES Rural Life Group Backing Farmer Bargaining Rights NCWCASKS "Fnil Speed, Non-Partisan Poverty War 1 WASHINGTON (NC) — An ap peal "to move full speed ahead with the war on poverty and unemployment" on a "comple tely non-partisan basis’* do minated the 1964 Labor Day statement of the Social Action Department, National Catholic Welfare Conference. The plea was directed to la bor, management, government, "all segments of our economy and all Interested volun tary groups at the local, re gional and national level" to play their proper role "in this all-out crusade for human dig nity." PREPARED under the super vision of Msgr. George G. Hig gins, department director, the statement emphasized that all forces in the struggle "will want to give special attention to the problem of racial injus tice." "No greater mistake could be made than to think that this problem, the sheer magnitude and tragedy of which we have yet fully to grasp as a nation, was taken care of once and for all by the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964," the statement noted. "THE passage of this sta tute was truly history-making in its implications, but, in the long run, could prove to have been a curse, rather than a blessing, if the hopes and expe ctations which it aroused among our Negro fellow citizens are frustrated, not so much by the uncompromising opposition of those who opposed its enactment in the first place as by the apathy and indifference of those who favored its adoption," the statement asserted. kind of poverty—all the ’more degrading because it so often goes unnoticed in a land of boun teous plenty," the statement observed. The statement noted that automation has brought certain potential blessings, but has also created, "a number of very serious economic and soc ial problems." "PRIVATE enterprise in the industrial sector of our econ omy given a high degree of in telligent cooperation bet ween management and labor, can help solve the problems of mass unemployment and mass poverty in the midst of plenty, but it cannot and should not be expected to do the job alone," the statement asserted. The statement said the gove rnment should lose no time in tooling up its own set of anti-poverty programs, now limited in scope, and should be prepared to adopt additi onal programs as they become necessary. IT HAS become "ratherfash- ionable" to blame many econo mic woes on the so-called breakdown of collective bar gaining and also to berate la bor for lack of militancy, moral idealism and creative imagina tion, the statement said. It added, "labor and manage ment should not be immune to constructive criticism, but criticism ceases to be constru ctive when it fails to take ac count of the fact that after all has been said and done about the real or alleged faults of the two parties to collective bar gaining, the institution of col lective bargaining alone cannot be expected to solve all of our national economic problems." Ironically, these problems mount at a time when "we are currently enjoying a re markably high level of econo mic prosperity in this coun try, the statement noted. "MILLIONS of able-bodied Americans are unemployed, through no fault of their own, and millions more are the vic tims of the most degrading Received By Pope CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (RNS)—Associate Justice Ar thur J. Goldberg of the U.S, Su preme Court was received in private audience by Pope Paul VI at the papal summer resi dence here. Accompanied by Mrs. Goldberg, he spent 30 minutes in conversation with the pontiff. ARCHBISHOP Paul J, Hallinan greets Msgr, Martin V. Helriegel during Liturgical Week recently held in St. Louis, Msgr, Hei-s reigel, pastor of Holy Cross Parish, St. Louis, is a pioneer in the liturgical movement in the U. S.