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PACE 4 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1964 WARREN REPORT Archdiocese of Atlanta the GEORGIA BULLETIN SCRVINO GEORGIA'S 71 NOUTMMw COUNTIES Official Organ of the Archidocese of Atlanta Published Every Week at the Decatur DeKalb News PUBLISHER- Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan MANAGING EDITOR Gerard E. Sherry CONSULTING EDITOR Rev. R. Donald Kiernan ASSOCIATE EDITOR Rev. Leonard F. X. Mayhew Member of the Catholic Press Association 2699 Peachtree N. E. and Subscriber to N. C. W. C. News Service P. O. Box 11667 Telephone 231-1281 Northside Station Atlanta 5, Ga. Second Class Permit at Altanta, Ga. U. S. A. $5.00 Canada $5.00 Foriegn $6.50 - Don’t Wonder Why! Some people wonder why we re fuse to go along with racial ex tremist; some people wonder why we plead for justice for the Negro especially in Mississippi. Per haps the following list of Church buildings destroyed or damaged by fire or bomb in Mississippi this summer might enlighten. June 15: Hattiesburg, Rosary Catholic Church (auditorium gut ted by fire • after meeting of Negroes who discussed means of averting racial violence). June 16: Philadelphia, Mt. Zion Baptist Church (leveled by bomb after local whites beat three Negroes). June 21: Brandon, Church of Christ Holiness (bombed by Molotov cocktail; destroyed in early August). June 25: Ruleville, Williams Chapel (Molotov cocktail). June 26: Clinton, Church of the Holy Ghost (extensive damage from kerosene). July 6; Jackson, McGraven- Hill Baptist Church (kerosene fire, slight damage). July 11: Browning, Pleasant Plan Baptist Church (burned to ground). July 13: Kingston, Jerusalem Baptist Church (leveled by fire). Chuch (moderately damaged by fire). July 30; Meridian, Mt. Mor iah Baptist Church (leveled v by fire). July 31; Rankin County (on Highway 80, about three miles from Brandon), Pleasant Grove Baptist Church ( burned to the ground. Aug. 5 Finwick (near Natchez), Mt. Pilgrim Baptist Church (burned to ground). Aug. 11: Gluckstadt (near Clin ton), Mt. Pleasant Church (severely damaged by fire). Aug. 12: Brandon, St. Mat thew’s Baptist Church (heavily damaged by fire). Aug. 22: Itta Bena, Perry's Chapel (burned to ground; local fire department deemed building out of its jurisdiction). Sept. 9: Aberdeen (on Route 45), Mt. Moriah Baptist Church (parts destroyed by dynamite). Sept. 12: Aberdeen, Daniel Baptist Church (porch burned off). Sept. 16: Valley View (eight miles from Canton), St.John the Baptist Church(totally destroyed by fire). July 13: One mile <east ofl Kingston, Bethel Methodist Church (totally destroyed by fire). July 17; McComb, Mt. Zion Hall Baptist Church (moderate dam age). July 19: Madison County (on Highway 51, between Ridgeland and Madison, Christian Union Baptist Church (burned to ground). July 22; Pike County (six miles east of Magnolia), Mt. Vernon Baptist Church (completely des troyed by fire). July 24; McComb, Rose Hill Sept. 17: Madison County (seven miles east of Canton on Route 43), Cedar Grove Bap tist Church (church leveled by fire; only stone steps remain standing). Sept. 18: Near Philadelphia, a Negro church and a Choctaw Indian church severely damag ed by fire. There appears to us no reason to wonder why, for few of these crimes have been solved in Miss issippi; in just the same manner as the slayers of the three Civil Rights Workers still are not ap prehended even though their bodies were found more than two months ago. Mission Sunday Mission Sunday is always taken for granted. The appeal for Christ’s poor, be they in Georgia or Africa , has one vi tal element that almost always is missing -- the personal con cern of those who right off obli gations with a check. The work of the Propagation of the Faith is bound up with this appeal, which takes place within the Archdiocese this Sunday (Oct. 4.) The Propa gation's keyword in all of its activities is Love. We give to the missions, not only because it’s nice to help those in need; rath er we give mainly because we are called to love our bro thers, and this is but one way to express this love. In giving generously to the appeal for the Church’s missi ons, let us also express the other essential elements in love-- prayer, concern, sacri fice and understanding. Let us not only pray for the mission needy, but also for the missioners- priests and religious who labor in the vineyard sacrificing and dying for the spread of Christ’s Kingdom on earth. Yes, Mission Sunday means more than paying off an obli gation with a check-- it means returning the Love of Christ. PEACE IS A GIFT OF G0D...AND WE0BTAIN IT BY PRAYING — PauljZI Pop e Month of the Rosary GEORGIA PINES Botany And Buccaneers BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN While north Georgians take a particular pride in the fact that the first land-grant university in the United States is located in these parts, ac tually Athen's University of Georgia had its birth place in Savannah. The capitol of the State of Georgia was, at one time, located in Savannha. The appropriations for Georgia's first state university were rriade while the General Assembly met in the port city making the "Birthplace of the University" Savannah I THIS FACT is attested to by a marker located near the present city hall on a bluff overlooking the Savannah River. This whole section of Savan nah is rich in history. The pre sent city hall is reputed to be on the exact spot where General Oglethorpe landed when he arrived here from England in 1733. A BOUT EIGHT or nine blocks from this land ing spot General Oglethorpe established an ex perimental garden modeled after the Chelsea Botanical Garden in London. The General named the garden Trustees Garden, after the men in his native England who were the Trustees of this new colony named Georgia. It is interesting to note that from this garden came the original peach trees which were plant ed all over South Carolina and Georgia and gave rise to the latter’s claim to fame. AS SAVANNAH grew and more and more im migrants arrived, this area Expanded and be came known as the "Old Fort". It was the "high Irish" section of the city as distinguish ed from the "low Irish" who settled in another section of the town known as Yamacraw. Old Saint Patrick’s Church became the parish church of the Yamacraw-ites; and the proud boast of the "old Fort Irish" was the Cathedral which even to the present day is advertised as the barome ter of Catholic prestige in the South. Mainly through the efforts of Mrs. Hansell. Hilyer, the wife of the president of the Savannah Gas Company this whole area has been restored. What originally was the gardener’s house in Trustees Garden is now one of Savannah’s more famous eating places, called the Pirate’s House. TRADITION has it that when Savannah became a flourishing sea port and the need of the Gar*r den was abandoned, the Gardener’s house became a rendezvous for bloodthirsty pirates and sail ors. Stories still persist that a tunnel ran from the cellar of the Pirate's House out to the river. Through this tunnel men were car ried, drugged and unconscious, to ships waiting for a crew before sailing. Legend says that one Savannahian stopped by for a friendly drink in the tavern and awoke on a schooner headed for China, not to return for over two years I ONE SUCH shanghaied sailor was a man by the name of O’Keefe. Some years ago Hollywood made a picture about this Savannah native who became famous. The movie was named: "His Majesty, O’ Keefe". National Geographic magazine had an Interesting article a few years ago about this interesting character too. While the circunstances of his departure from Savannah are debatable, O'Keefe did wind up out on an island in the Pacific named Yap. His memory of Savannah never waned, though, because his will contained a remembrance of in heritance for his relatives in Savannah. IT IS interesting to note that the legal as pects of "King O'Keefe’s" will were handled by a Savannah law firm by the name of O'Connor, O'Byrne and Hartridge. The late Mr. O’Byrne was the father of Mother 0*Byme, president of Manhattanville College in New York; and the late Mr. O'Connor was the father of Monsignor O' Connor, pastor of Decatur’s Saint Thomas More Church. REFUGEES ONCE MORE? Your World And Mine BY GARY MacEGIN Forty minutes in a fast American car along the new American highway south from Saigon, capital of South Vietnam, takes one to Van Hoi. It is a village of wood workers. Some of the men are lumberjacks in the nearby forest. Many have little carpentry shops by their homes, and display the furniture for sale on the road side. All around are grouped other villages 20 or 30 families, others with several hundred. On every side stretch the paddy fields which have made this region famous as the Rice Bowl of the Orient, and because of which rice-hun gry China looks down on it with covetous eyes. Each village, even the smallest, is dominat ed by its Catholic church. Such was the custom in the homes from which they fled in North Vietnam when ten years ago the Geneva Agreements gave the Communist regime of Ho Chi Minh control of their country to the 17th parallel. A million escaped to the south in American ships and pro ceeded to re-create in each detail the life they had always known. THEY ARE hardy people, the ones from the north. They have the Chinese virtues of family unity and hard work. Their soil was such that they literally had to hang it up to dry between corps to maintain a cultivable texture. For them it was child’s paly to grow rice on the rich virgin soil on which they were settled. American aid help ed them over the first year while they cleared the forest and built simple earthen huts. Soon the nightmare of the escape was a memory and busy hands were rebuilding something of the simple comfort they had sacrificed in favor of freedom. Always the first project was a church. The priest had come with his people from the north and he continued to be their guide and leader. A school followed the church, a school in which the priest taught until the-village could afford fulltime teachers. After that, the men began to replace the huts of the first years with solid buildings. This was now their home. In due course, they would be better off than before. SUCH WAS their dream, but it is a dream that has been shattered. "Can we find peace in Aus- CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 Reliving The Unbelief BY GERARD E. SHERRY Issuance of the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy brings back memories of the evening of un belief almost ten months ago in Rome. I was sitting in the Columbus Hotel on the Via Conciliazione having just finished dinner when the news broke. My first thoughts were that some right wing extremist had finally put words into deeds and eliminated our President. And while I was thinking this in other parts of the world some of my Conservative friends were thinking quite the opposite. To them, the assass ination was the work of a Communist un der orders to create chaos in our land. It wasn’t as far fetcheda thought as itmight seem for John F. Kennedy .’had all but humiliated Khruschev in the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Communists were not past doing just that. REAPINGS AT RANDOM MOST OF us were wrong in our assumptions as a reading of the Warren Commission Re port reveals. There was no conspiracy domestic or foreign, to take the life of the President. It was all the work of one man, Lee Harvey Os wald. And what about Jack Ruby who slew Oswald in a Dallas police station? Here again the Com mission concludes that Jack Ruby acted on his own, without assistance, and that his act was no part of a conspiracy. The Warren Report puts to rest many of the theories circulated as to how and why the Pre sident was slain. There is no guess work, only conclusions based on the facts available. And these facts were established only after exhaustive in vestigation by the Commission and its staff. It was a bipartisan Commission including persons from all areas of responsible political and legal activity. The members paid lip-service to no one and criticized government agencies which they felt had been lax in protecting the Presi dent. Both the Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation received strong criticism for lax practices. It said that both these agen cies failed to coordinate essential information and actions in safeguarding the President. I am glad that even these super agencies are not im mune from criticism. THE MOST significant thing about the Report was its analysis of Lee Oswald, and it remin ded-me of some words I wrote forto specials unj editorial when I. returned from Romq.lLsaid, "The alleged assassin was a child of turbulence. An avowed Marxist, he saw violence as the solu tion to the problems whirling through his twist ed mind. As a result of his actions, a Presi dent lay dead and a world was disrtuped from its chosen task of establishing peace and tran quility in the hearts of mankind. "It would be comforting, in some ways, if we could lay the philosophy of violence solely at the door of the Marxists and their world. But who will cast the first stone? We, as a nation, are not warlike. Yet we are suffering from a dreadful malady which now seems to have struck the vitals of our body politic. At both ends of the political spectrum there are indi viduals and groups wishing to impose their views on the nation— by violence if necessary. Both elements of the extremist cause claim patriotism as their motive, and scoff at the dissi dent view. Physical violence seems to be the answer if they cannot succeed in overwhelming the majority viewpoint by insiduous propaganda. "THESE extremists of the Right and the Left do not reflect the American way. They are ser vants of alien causes whose masters seek either a dictatorship of the Proletariat, or a master race, nurtured on violence and disorder. "John Fitzgerald Kennedy saw things dif ferently. He belonged to a new generation of Americans who saw war as the least suitable way to accomplish a peaceful world. He was a man of courage, who had been tested in battle and had earned "a profile in courage". Although born to riches, he possessed a compassion for his fellowman which knew no bounds. His con stant goal was peace at home and peace in the world. But when the time came to stand up to the enemy, he never flinched, and won the day. No need for him to rattle a sabre, because he was seeking plows to till the valleys of peace. He wanted the American dream realized through brotherly love, rather than hate. It was a lot to ask of this disturbed nation, but he had faith in its people, whose generosity of heart had been proven so many times before. "IT IS tragic that only through his death could the real sentiments of the majority of our people be given witness. The genuine expressions of horror and disgust from leaders of both our main political parties was carried through to the millions of members throughout the land. The extreme Right Wing and extreme Left Wing could only be isolated in this hour of national travail. Their mockery of our patriotic values could only be laid bare at such a time." After the Warren Commission Reprt, I would not change a word of these views.