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PAGE 4 GEORGIA. BULLETIN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1964 the Atrchdiocest of Atlanta GEORGIA BULLETIN SfftVINO GCOKGIA'S 71 NOKTHMU 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 2699 Peachtree N. E. P. O. Box 11667 Northside Station Atlanta 5. Ga. ASSOCIATE EDITOR Rev. Leonard F. X. Mayhew Member of the Catholic Press Association and Subscriber to N. C. W. C. News Service Telephone 231-1281 Second Class Permit at Altanta, Ga. U. S. A. $5.00 Canada $5.00 Foriegn $6.50 The New Breed It seems to be the fashion in some American Catholic Circles to constantly take to task the so-called “new breed of angry young men". Their outspoken, and sometimes necessary criti cism, has nettled some people in high places. Last weekend “the new breed" again came in for a blast from a fellow editor at a Pennsylvania college convocation. Accordig to the NCWC Isfews Service, the speaker criticized young Catho lics intellectuals of the LayApos- tolate for being impatient with the progress of the Vatican Council. We would venture to suggest that he has missed the whole point. The “new breed" is delighted with the progress being, made even if it is impatient with the procrastinations and the stub born refusal of some to lay aside outmoded methods in the inte rests of Aggiornamento. Impatience is not necessarily a vice; neither do we think it is virtuous to use so-called pru- Urban How relevant is the parish church to today’s complex, prob lem-ridden city life? Not very, says Dr. Clifford C. Ham, Jr., in a report compiled for ACTION- Housing of Pittsburgh on the role of neighborhood churches in ur ban renewal. Dr. Ham, a former seminary teacher who now instructs in ur ban affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, found the church as an institution not yet awake to to day’s changed urban environ ment. It is not the leader it should be, he concludes, in meeting the problems created by technologi cal change, expanding population, urbanization and automation. The Church must apply its teaching to the broad social needs of cities as AN ALTAR BOY NAMED "SPECK" lf I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree . . . .” dence merely to cloak our own desires to shut up all except our selves. There are some people who seem genuinely afraid of articulate Catholics, especially young ones who shine intellec tually. It is part and parcel of the fallacy that only age pro duces wisdom. Alas, this isn’t necessarily so. Contrary to the opinions ex pressed by some Catholic lead ers, most of the “new breed of angry young men" within the Church are not anti-authority, anti-clerical or anti anything. A small minority may well be found wanting in prudence, humility and charity, but then the vices of pride - and arrogance are found much more among their elders. Maybe it is some of us who are the real “angry men". My observation of the “new breed" is that they are in fact “the.happy breed" who through the reborn spirit of the Aggior namento have become joyous and proud on finally being recogniz ed in their rightful role within the Church. Renewal well as to the individual needs, says Dr. Ham; it must, without losing concern for the indivi dual, see the necessity for vast governmental structures and un derstand its responsibility to en courage and support such struc tures. When people by the thousands are succumbing to mental ills that result from modern living tensions, it is not enough for a congregation to pray for the afflicted. The Church, both cler gy and laity, from the parish level up, must make its voice heard in behalf of extensive men tal health programs. For instance - and the exam ples are our own - aiding the poor today must mean more than sending out St. Vincent de Paul men to a few needy families. It must mean actively supporting broad programs of assistance, governmental or other, that are imperative in an age when one new machine can wipe out thou sands of old jobs. It is not defensible for a church that preaches love of neighbor to ignore neighborhood efforts to secure decent housing, proper education, employment, a stable family life, for its residents. To day, “love thy neighbor" means assuming a role in such efforts. The Church that does not will become increasingly irrelevant in the exploding metropolis. Dr. Ham really is affirming a truth that should be self-evident by now, namely that Catholicism means more than receiving the Sacraments and supporting par ish organizations. We find the idea summed up well by the cap tain of the sailing ship of an earl ier age, who ordered his crew to their knees when a storm threat ened the boat. After leading the men in a prayer, the captain sprang to his feet. “All right!" he cried. “Now let’s get up into the rigging and get that prayer answered.’ THE PITTSBURGH CATHOLIC The Church Universal GEORGIA PINES Elephant Stomp BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN The effects of Hurricane Hilda were just beg inning to be felt. An early morning drizzle had wet the ground and the encouragement of the weather man was not too promising. How ever, It was not too discouraging for a MarLst team to travel to Gainesville, in hopes of their first victory of the year. Sports writers in both Atlanta and Gaines ville gave a 50/50 chance to both teams. Neith er team had won a game yet this season. A vic tory for either side would be an occasion of re joicing. GAINESVILLE'S assistant coach, Keith Ochs, was a little embarrassed each Sunday as he walked into church. He said that if his pastor would only attend one game, possibly the home team might win. I had forgot ten his prophecy last Friday night, and when I picked up the sports page and saw that Gainesville was playing host to Marist, I decided to attend. Little did I realize that Coach Och's forcast would bring a 25-0 victory in favor of Gaines ville’s Red Elephants. At any rate on Sunday morning, I caught the coach going up to the choir loft to sit. I suppose that he expected an “eccles iastical condemnation’* for having sent the Marist Fathers back to Atlanta in defeat. IT WAS a real good game, though. Possibly had the game lasted another half hour the fog would have been so heavy that Marist might have scored with a quarter back-sneak or some other equally deceptive play impossible to analyze in the heavy fog. To many in Gainesville, I’m sure the sight of more than one priest at a game must have closely resembled the proverbial “solemn- high sick call”. But the saddest ones at the game were the concessionaires who could not under stand why none of those sitting on the Marist side were not buying hamburgers and hot dogs I IT WAS a return visit for the J im Conrads, formerly of Gainesville, and now living in Holy Spirit parish. One of their sons is a Marist cadet, Steve. The trip up to these hills was both out of school spirit and nostalgia. Chairman of Marist’s Athletic Association, Bill Murphy, looked sad as the score piled high against the Cadets. Penalties galore, but it was impossible for the players to stop on the slippery grass. At times, I even had fears for the safety of the refrees. SERRA Club member, Jimmy Hynes, was sitt ing in the stands too. Someone told me that he never misses a game. As a matter of fact the presence of jso many., Serra Club members at the game half-prompted me have a call meeting and see if the chaplain's “appropriation’’ for the next conventioncouid beincreased. After all, its always easy to win a victory on the home-field! Mike Sertich, the Atlanta Realtor (and Serra Club member) was also in attendance. His fre quent trips to the Coke stand were rivaled in distance only by the playe i marking off pena lties. LAST YEAR, Atlanta surgeon, Doctor Bill Hop kins, sat on the sidelines acting as team physician. Dr. Bill was absent this year but his good friend in Gainesville, Dr. Pep Brown, was sitting on the Gainesville side waiting to perform his skill should an unfortunate occasion arise. All in all, folks, it was a terriffic game. The score, I know, does not read that way but both teams fought hard and played well. It was a real source of pride to me to see the Marist boys, even in defeat, playing sportsman-like football and act ing as real gentlemen right up to the last sec ond. CHINA AND THE WORLD Your World And Mine BY GARY MacEOIN Singapore is the meeting place of the cultures of the East. Its teeming, bustling streets pre sent the features, the dress, the languages, the produce and the customs of Malays, In dians and Pakistanis. But Singapore is above all a Chinese city. The quaint inner harbor chock full of sampans and house boats, the ubiqui tous rickshaws, the endless rows of all-night stall's jamming the thronged streets of the world’s largest “Chinatown,** all these constantly remind the visitor that nearly three quarters of the two million inhabitants are •Chinese. In Singapore, one begins to sense what China means to the world. As a people, the ^Chinese have incredible drive and vitality. Whatever they do, they do superbly, whether it is handstitching a cut-price suit for a 24- hour tourist or carving a set of jade chessmen. Both sexes are equally industrious and versatile. Men and women work side by side in the fields, in construction, in stores and offices. One child goes to an English-language school, another to a Chinese, in order to increase the family versatility. Even when Number One Son assumes control of family affairs , the old grandparents retain their dignity and titular leadership. Honesty is highly regarded. It is almost unknown for servants to steal. A few years ago, the fish eries department of Hong Kong installed motors on credit in several hundred junks. “You will never getpaid,” they were told. “The entire family lives on board, and they will take off for Macao or theCommunist mainland with the first catch.’* Instead, they paid their instalments faithfully. Only a single defaulter in the entire fleet. Politically, Singapore is since September 1963 a state of the Federation erf Malaysia, along with mainland Malaya became independent, including protection and subsidization of Islam as the state religion, and they dominate the government. The Chinese and other non-Moslem peoples, resent the situation, ami it has already caused bloody rioting, an internal weakness the state can ill afford while under pressure from power ful neighboring Indonesia which gladly gob ble it up. AMONG THE natural virtues, family soli darity takes pride of place. The family head makes decisions for all, guided by the common good. Each member will lend to the others with an absolute assurance of repayment on time. Uncles underwrite the education of newphews. MOST OF THE CHINESE condemn the inter nal violence. They are patient people, and they know that their superior intelligence, education ami energy are working for them. One already CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 IN BRITAIN Other Crucial Elections BY GERARD E. SHERRY In the heat of our own national elections we tend to forget that other elections in other countries can also be crucial to the interests of the United States. This could be said of next week's elections in Great Britain where the ten- year government of the Conservatives is being challenged by a revitalized Labor Party and a hopeful Liberal Party. The strugg le of these three ma jor British politi cal parties and its outcome will be of great significance and import to the rest of the world. There are many confusions in Brit ish politics. The first is in relation to the poli tical parties themselves. The Conservatives, La- borites and Liberals have a different philoso phy to their counterparts here in this country. It would be good to quote from each of their spoke smen as to the philosophies and issues involv ed in next week's election. FOR THE Conservatives, Harold Macmillan, former Prime Minister, states: “What we see ahead of us now is a new Britain sensibly conserving all that is best in its traditions ani values but radically uprooting all that bars the path of progress. An efficient Britain, second to none in the development of new industries and in the modernizing of old ones. / go-ahead Britain where earnings and savings are encoura ged and enterprise and iniative receive their due reward. A just Britain whose prosperity is widely shared between all sectors of the com munity and all parts of the country. A respon sible Britain in which every family has a good home and every child a full education and private care and kindness supplement public health and welfare. Above all a united Eritain determined and able to maintain this progress by the cooperation and a growing sense of com radeship throughout the nation.” The Labor Party is called “Socialist “but has no relationship to the Doctrine of Marxism prac ticed by the Continental Socialists. Indeed, to use their own term, they call It “Evolutionary Socialism”. In a Labor Party statement entitled “Signposts For The Sixties”, it was stated: “WE LIVE IN a scientific revolution. In the sixteen years since the war ended, man’s know ledge and his power over nature—to create and to destroy—has grown more than in the previous century. In such an epoch of revolutionary' change, those who identify laissez-faire with liberty are enemies, however urtwittiffg/'o^de-' 1 Iw *w • * ^‘mocracy^the enlargement ‘6Prfrefc&fa Ln Whieft louIini we all desire cannot be achieved by opposing State intervention but only by assuring that national resources are wisely allocated and com munity services humanely planned. Indeed, the three main ways of achieving this must be: first to harness the forces released by science in service of the community; second to plan and supervise the balanced growth of the economy, and thirdly to ensure that the ever increasing wealth created by modern techniques of produc tion is fairly shared.” THE LIBERAL Party philosophy is said to be based on resistance to arbitrary or capricious power in any form. Actually they sound like as if they have embraced a little of both the Right and the Left in the political spectrum. In their manifesto, “Partners in a new Britain”, the Li berals declare, “Parliament and the Civil Ser vice must be reformed and power must be decen tralized from London to give the people a greater say in the decisions which affect their lives. Class barriers inherited from another age still cripple our society causing bitterness and pre venting people from leading full lives. Liber alism alone, tied to no class, can break those antiquated postures. It seeks to give the under- privleged greater opportunities, to replace class strife by partnership and to give all people the chance to participate more fully in politics, in running their local communities, in industry and in their working lives. Once the British people feel secure in such an atmosphere of social jus tice and partnership new energies and zest will be released both in our economy and in the nation as a whole”. There are several smaller parties represent ed in the British parliament, but they are nor mally merely dissident members of the regular parties who go their own way on some issues. Significantly no Communits have been elected to the British Parliament since 1945. Frankly, I sometime wonder what motive other than dedication, moves the British member of parliament to seek election. Unlike his American counterpart, he gets only the equivalent of about $3,000.00 a year for almost full time service. He gets only occasional postal franking privi leges, has no office or staff unless he wants to pay for one out of his own pocket and, in some cases, wins a seat, but finds there is none to sit on in parliament—the place is old and grossly overcrowded. Despite this, the Mother of Parliaments will go through its five year ritual of electing more than 600 representatives of the British people. They will continue to uphold the Magna Carta no matter who gets the election. The Elections are crucial only in that each party is taking a different direction in the goal of improved de mocracy at home and peace in the world. REAPINGS AT RANDOM