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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1964 COUNCIL TIDBITS PAUL SMITH, PRESIDENT LEW GORDON, JR., VICE PRESIDENT MILLARD C. NORRIS, SECRETARY JAMES CALL ISON, TREASURER ARCIIDIOCESAN GROUP Council Of Men Elects Officers The Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Men, sponsor of last week’s highly successful Wor ship Conference, has announced the election of officers for the coming year. The election took place at the Council Board meeting on Saturday afternoon. The new president is Paul Smith of SS. Peter and Paul Parish, where he is chairman of the Fund Drive and program chairman of the Holy Name So* ciety. He also belongs to the Serra Club of Metropolitan At lanta ami has served on the Archbishop's Lay Advisory Priest’s Chorale To JFK Library ROME, (NC)—An eight-part choral version of a prayer for the late U.S, President John F, Kennedy, composed by Father Stanislao de Prosperis of Pal estrina, Italy, has been for warded for the proposed Ken nedy Memorial Library in Bos ton by the American embassy here. The composition was first performed in Rome at a memor ial service for President Ken nedy in the church over the an cient Mamertine prison on Dec, 18, 1963. Women Attend BIRMINGHAM, England (NC) —A small number of women attended the annual general meeting of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul here. The soci ety’s general council in Paris decreed last year that women’s and men’s groups should no longer function as separate ent ities. Anglicans Help DORKING, England (NC) — A fund raising drive by the White Sisters for a novi tiate here is being supported by neighboring Anglican clergy men. Committee on Census. A grad uate of Notre Dame University, he is Governor of the Notre Dame Fund for the state of Georgia, and is a member of the board of the U.S.O, Mr. Smith is president of Southern Oxygen Supply Co., is married and has four children, VICE PRESIDENT Lew Gor don, Jr., of Holy Spirit, is ac tive in Holy Name and is sec retary of the Atlanta Serra Club. He is a member of the Lay Ad visory Board of Holy Family Hospital and has served on the Archbishop's Lay Advisory Committee on Census and as publicity chairman of “Opera tion Understanding.'* A grad uate of Emory, where he re ceived A.B, and LL.B,degrees, he is an account executive with Bearden, Thompson, Frankel, Inc. advertising agency. He is married and has three child ren. Millard C. Norris, the new secretary, is a member of Sac red Heart Parish, where he is treasurer and past president of Holy Name. A Knight of Colum bus, Third Degree, he is active in the Confraternity of Chris tian Doctrine, Mr. Norris is president of Norris & Co., At lanta mechanical contractors, is married and has three child ren, TREASURER James Callison is president of the Council of Men of Blessed Sacrament Par ish. A Knight of Columbus, Third. Degree, he is on the Board of Trustees of the Met ropolitan Atlanta Serra Club and served as parish chairman for the Archdiocesan Census and for “Operation Understand ing.” Mr. Callison is an at torney for Delta Air Lines and holds A.B, and J.D. degrees from the University of Michi gan. He is a member of the Georgia and American Bar As sociations, is married and has daughter. VOTE FOR - RE-ELECT RALPH McClelland Fulton County Representative A RECORD - NOT A PROMISE PROVEN EXPERIENCED DEDICATED GENERAL ELECTION - NOV. 3rd. FULTON COUNTY NEEDS THIS MAN ‘Big Eye,’ Limericks, Motor Scooters Add Session Zip BY FR. PLACID JORDAN (N.C.W.C. News Service) VATICAN CITY—The bis hops of the world here for the ecumenical council can never be certain that Pope Paul VI is not looking at them. Thanks to TV equipment re cently installed at strategic points in St. Peter’s basilica, the Pope can “spot” by remote control nearly every move they in connection with the introduc tion of a “new look" in the interior decorations of the ap- partments where the Pope re ceives important visitors. There was a radio setup there before which enabled him to lis ten in on council debates whenever he wanted. Now there is TV also. THERE is one council Fath er who is apt at composing limericks when he gets tired of listening to speeches of the bishops. Here is his latest pro duct: Cardinal Cushing of Bos ton avows He fre dom to all men allows. Though he’s no Latin scholar, He knows how to holler. At the Council he brought down the house. As a matter of fact, the Bos ton cardinal spoke a perfect Latin when he took so vigo rous a stand in regard to both religious liberty and the Church’s duty to do justice to the Jewish people. The “house" gave him enthusiastic applause. WHEN Patrick Keegan, pre sident of the World Movement of Christian Workers and coun cil auditor, was about to be come the first laymen to ad dress the council, he was shown by Msgr. Achille Lupi of the council secretariat to a bench covered with ceremonial green cloth next to the statue of St. Peter where the patriarchs are seated. Waiting for his turn, he seemed a bit uncomfortable on that stiff board, so Arch bishop John J. Krol of Phila delphia, one of the five coun cil undersecretaries, walked over to him to put him at ease with small talk conversa tion. Pat, of course, was in wonderful shape and his ad dress was received enthusias tically. Some cardinals patted him on the shoulder, others con gratulated him, shaking hands. “Then,” said Pat, “I went right over to the coffee shop. I did crave a smoke, you know, once the excitement w as over.” At a forum held in connec tion with the council debate on the lay apostolate, Martin Work, also a council auditor and exe cutive director of the National Council of Catholic Men in Washington, was asked how many laymen he thought were really interested in the lay apo stolate. “I'm afraid,” he replied, “many of them just wanted to be left alone!” THANKS to the council, the photographic industry must be booming. One of the major Rome firms taking pictures at the council has turned out some 50,000 photographs since its opening. Add the production of a dozen or so other firms in this field, and the work of the ama teurs, and you will conclude that a regular marathon of pho tography is in progress here in Rome, sparked by the council. NO LESS an incentive comes from the council to the office equipment manufacturers. How many typewriters and mimeo graph machines are in opera tion in connection with it, no one would hazard to guess. Thousands of them, no doubt. They turn out in a nearby end less stream— reports, docu mentaries, listings of all des criptions—and provide tons of waste paper after the copy is persued by the council Fathers, the council staff, the press and numerous related agencies. “To think,” remarked a stenographer who was slaving away at the products of the talk ative males, “that so much nice, clean white paper is being spoiled by so much black ink!” THERE are marathons in council attendance, too. Arch bishop Martin J. O’Connor, Pennsylvania-born prelate who is president of the council press committee, noted the other day that so far he has attended 64 plenary meetings of the coun cil’s preparatory commission and over 100 general coun cil meetings. In addition, of course, innumerable committee meetings. Hard to beat, isn't it? TWO priests can be seen ped aling through Rome’s furious traffic every morning, headed for St. Peter’s. They are Father Antoine Wenger, ed itor of the Paris Catholic news paper, La Croix, and Father Rene Laurent in, who is a council expert consultant but also writes for the Paris dai ly, Figaro. “The bike,” they explain to astounded onlookers, “is the fastest means of communica tion in this traffic-jammed town.” The statement might be chal lenged by Father John P. Don nelly of the Spokane, Wash., diocese, a staff correspondent of N. C. W. C. News Service in Rome, for he proudly owns a Vespa, a motor scooter of Italian make, which no doubt gets him places much faster than the best French bikes. Those Chinese- Language council bulletins, which are so intriguingly exotic that every body looks at them even though nobody seems able to read them, are written longhand by a Chin ese priest here in Rome, then airmailed to the Catholic Cen ter in Hong Kong. From there they are distributed all over eastern and southeastern Asia, many to the United States and other countries in the Western Hemisphere where Chinese na tional reside. THE nine council Fathers from Hungary, seven of them bishops, had to pay from their own pockets for their trip from Budapest to Rome, which about exhausted their funds. No help was forthcoming from their communist government, so now they are the guests of the Holy See for their stay in the Et ernal City. SOME of the French Cana dian council experts and theo logical advisors have beautiful names. Here are some samples: “Lafortune” (Good luck), “San- schagrin” (without worry), “Bellefleur” (beautiful flow er). Suppose you met Msgr. Good Luck, wouldn’t that be a real inspiration. SOME 150 to 200 guests, both women and men, are admitted to the council Masses preced ing the actual meetings. A good many of these would like to re ceive Holy Communion, but this would cut down even further on the time available for debates. So it was ruled that only men and women council auditors may receive, with no intent of dis crimination because they re present all the laity on these occasions. AN ever-growing number of priests now can be seen on the streets of Rome wearing what they call in these parts “the clergyman,” whichmeanscoats and pants after the American gs and English fashion. The cas socks still predominate, but slowly Italian dioceses are expected to follow the prece dent established by the Trent diocese and discard them. “I like you better wearing the ’clergyman,” said a street car conductor to a visiting Am erican priest. There can be no doubt that the Italian people gene rally agree with him. Scenes from Conference on Worship Pope Paul Meditates On India VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope Paul VI has expressed the hope that his forthcoming visit to India to attend the Internation al Eucharistic Congress in Bombay will not draw attention away from Christ in the Eu charist, the very center of the congress. “We would prefer that our unusual journey will result in honor for Him alone,” the Pope told those attending his weekly general audience. HE said his trip to India “should stimulate the souls of those who attend, and of those who follow the Eucharistic Congress from a distance, to concentrate all the more on the mystery of the Eucharist and the sacrificial presence of Christ.” The Pope opened the audience by pointing out that his listen ers “see in us the head of the Catholic Church, the visible head.” THEN he asked: “But who is the true head of the Church? St. Paul tells us clearly: It is Jesus Christ. He is the su preme head of the whole Church, which is His Mystical Body. THE Pope said the answer “is an easy one and you all know it: The true and supreme head of the Church, the only source of its salvation, is Christ the Lord.” THERE are those who carry on propaganda campaigns of their own on the streets lead ing to the council hall by hand ing out leaflets to passers-by. The other day an Italian priest walked up and down Via della Conciliazione distributing fold ers that recommended a book of his on Mariology which blunt ly urged readers not to pay any attention to relevant speeches of the Council Fathers. The side walk author claimed true know ledge about' the Blessed Virgin for himself only, poor fellow. CIVIL RIGHTS PROGRAM New ‘Peacemaker’ Counting On Assistance Of Churches BY JOHN J. DALY, JR. (N.C.W.C. News Service WASHINGTON—The head oi the new federal agency charg ed with a peacemaking role in racial disputes is counting heavily on the active support of religious bodies. LeRoy Collins, director of the Community Relations Service, said support of his agency’s purpose is being sought from a host of private groups and in dividuals—“ and none is more needed than the religious bod ies.” COLLINS is convinced that efforts to adopt the civil rights act, under which his office was established, would have failed without the united support of religious groups. “I hope now these groups will not rest on their well-earn ed laurels,” he said. “I hope they will undertake an even mighter program to help bring about compliance and we stand ready to work with them.” IT IS the task of the former Governor of Florida to direct a conciliation service that will try to untangle disputes assign ed to it by federal courts. It will also offer help to commun ities where problems about discrimination exist, although they may not hav> vched eith er the courts or me streets. Collins, who le^r a prestig ious and highly paid podPfcs pre sident of the National Associa tion of Broadcasters to answer President Johnson’s calltodir- ect the new office, also will marshal federal effor s to create a climate of voluntary compliance with the civil rights act and its principles. IN AN interview in his office in the Commerce Department building, Collins said he sees churches and their members acting as “bridges” for com munications in efforts to re solve racial discrimination dis putes. To encourage this role, he has made major addresses in re cent weeks to the Conference on Christian Social Concerns of the Methodist Church and to a session of the general conven tion of the Episcopal Church, of which he is a member, in St. Louis. STRESSING the part churches can play in getting people to accept “the basic truth that racial discrimination in all its forms has no basis of support scientifically, legally or mor ally,’’ Collins said in his ad dress to the Methodists: “Everything about the teach ings of Christ contradicts rac ial bigotry and its mani fest acts of discriminatory pra ctice. No amount of camouflag ing our conscience is going to change that.” IN THE interview, he spoke of the broad support given by Catholic leaders to the civil rights act, adding that the Church can be “a leading in fluence in the compliance pro gram not only through its advice, but because it can show the way through it school sys tems.” The soft-spoken southerner, who at one point interrupted himself, commenting, “There I go again, I don’t mean to preach at you,” insisted that compli ance with the rights law has been far greater than anyone expected. “I CALL it massive comp liance,” he said, “There has been no widespread disrespect. There i s not a major city in the country where there has not been a major effort to com ply.” There are serious problems, Collins was quick to add. He cited deep South areas where the situation is extremely tense, chiefly because law enforce ment is poor. COLLINS, forbidden by law to say where his concilitation ser vice is active, said “we have tried to explain to some of these places it is necessary to have a law-abiding environment. “Outrageous acts of lawless ness must be stopped. People must realize that without a cli mate of impartial and reason able law enforcement, the per sonal and social welfare of everyone is in jeopardy.” ADMITTEDLY he said, much compliance with the act’s pro visions has been given grudg ingly and his service hopes to change this. “We would hope to develop an atmosphere in which, broad ly speaking, the elimination of discrimination is a great-chal lenge to the moral citizen and the patriotic citizen and gives them a sense of pride that they are part of a movement to extend each American an equal opportunity,” he said. COLLINS, known nationally since his chairmanship of the dramatic 1960 Democratic con vention in Los Angeles, said his agency’s programs will appeal primarily on the grounds of morality, patriotism and ec onomics. “We would se^k to make of civil rights the most import ant moral issue of our time,” he said. “In the category of patrio tism,” he added, “we would hope to show that cultural plu ralism is one of the country's greatest strengths if it is bas ed on common national loyal ties and mutual respect for in dividuals, without regard to race, religion or national or igin.” THE HOUSEWIFE IN INDIA COOKS OUTDOORS, over an open fire.on a sheet of iron which rests on clay supports. She senes one meal (gruel and a slice or two of bread), usually at noon. Her nn<*-rnom "house” ts made of mud or bamboo- She has no elec v*-**- runtime w'ater. or Indoor f* 4 ^ . . . Our elrls in India ar*. tomorrow's mothers. Tomor row's India rests in women’s hands . . . That’s why FATHER EPHREM. a Carmelite, asks help to build a school in POONJAR. “Our girls ... . ... must learn to read and write, how Tb« Holy Tttbtr j Mnjwn Aid to |j ee p c i ean> how ( 0 car© for ior tbt On*nul Chmch children, if they arc to be good mothers.** he says. "Christian mothers can change the face of India." . . . Sisters are ready to teach these girls. If FATHER EPHREM can proride the classrooms. The classrooms (six are needed) will cost only $585 each. The chapel for the Sisters (they’ll live in the school) will cost only $1,150. Altogether. FATHER EPHREM needs $4,660 . . . Will you make some sacrifice to help? You may. If you wish, give the chapel ($1,150) or a classroom ($585) all by yourself (dedicate It to your f -*v«rite saint) In memory of a loved one. Just write to us . . . Please send something ($1, $3, $5, $10). Help give tomor row’s mothers a decent life. INDIA: TOMORROW’S MOTHERS PULPIT HINT—If Christ were preaching today. His sermons would be up-to-date. He might say: “I was hungry, and you fed a familv of refugees.’’ . . . There are thousands of hungry PALESTINE REFUGEE families in the Holy Land. The Holy Father asks us to feed as many as we can . . . Like to help? We can FEED A FAMILY for only $10 a month. MISSIONARIES ARE FOREIGN AGENTS?—Premier Khrush chev urges underdeveloped countries to expel priests and Sis ters. They are “agents of imperialism.” he says . . . The Church is interested in souls, not politics. Khrushchev wants priests and Sisters expelled because the work they do uproots Commu nism ... It costs only $1 a day to support a missionary priest or Sister. Why not “adopt” one for a day ($1), a week ($7), a month ($30). a year ($365)? MEDICINES FOR LEPERS—Lepers in Africa will receive tons of medicines, thanks to druggists in Canada . . . Like to help lepers in INDIA? Clip $1 to this column, send it to us, and ask to join our DAMIEN LEPER CLUB. The monthly dues are only $1. WONDER WHERE TO HELP?—The needs are so many, it's hard sometimes to decide just where your help is needed most. Why not let the Holy Father decide? Mark your gift “String less.” and send it to us. It will take care of some emergency- NOVEMBER: THE SOULS IN PURGATORY—Our mission ary priests will be pleased to offer Mass for your deceased. Simply send us your intentions . . . Ask us about GREGORIAN MASSES (Mass each day for 30 days without interruption). By using our ‘‘Suspense Cards” you can arrange now to have GREGORIAN MASSES offered for you after death. We‘11 be pleased to send further information. WHEN YOU MAKE A WILL. REMEMBER THE MISSIONS. OUR LEGAL TITLE: CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION. Dear Monsignor Ryan: Enclosed please find for. Name Street City Zone....State f£i‘Rear East Omissions FRANCIS CARDINAL SPILLMAN, Prtcldant Mar- J—T. Rym, Mart Sac’y \—4 Ml MMukatkw ta* CATHOLIC NCAR KAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION !M Maftw Am * 4M U. New YaHu H. Y. IM1V