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SEGREGATION RULING
A Second Revolution
Saints in Black and White
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5
EDITOR DECLARES
ST. FRANCIS BORGIA
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BY REV. LEONARD F. X. MAYHEW
The decade that began on May 17, 1954, when
the Supreme Court ruled that segregation In
public schools was unconstitutional, has wit*
nessed a second American Revolution. Contrary
to many partial analyses, that revolution has
not occurred only in the public schools of
Georgia, the university campuses of Mississippi
and Alabama, or the Negro ghettoes of New York
and Philadelphia. The real revolution has occur-
ed in the minds of millions of Americans. True
enough, it h(J<} over-'
turned - or started to overturn
- the existing social order in
the South. But, even more im
portantly, it has begun to wipe
out in many complacent hearts
the fearful burden of smugness
by which so many of us fail
ed ourselves and twenty million
of our compatriots.
IN 1944, in a classic analys
is called An American Dil
emma, Gunnar Myrdal wrote: “When we say that
there is a Negro problem in America, what we
mean is that Americans are worried about it.
It is on their minds and consciences." It was
conforting to believe that. Of course, there were
Americans of whom it was true - but not nearly
enough. Not enough to make the difference.
All kinds of pressures, mobility, the impact
of television, terms of service in unsegregated
armed forces, urbanization and industrialization
in the South — all were working for change.
But revolutions require a spark to start them off
and the Supreme Court desegregation decision
regarding public schools was the special
symbol that sparked this great American revo
lution. Men and their evolution live by symbols.
There has been recently published a brill
iant book that chronicles this decade of revo
lution. It is called Portrait of A Decade (Ran
dom House, 1964) and it is compiled from daily
first-hand reports from the New York Times plus
articles from the Times Sunday Magazine, edited
and coordinated by Anthony Lewis, two-time Puli
tzer Prize winner. It ought to be compulsory
reading. It is the record of the American cons
cience, 1954 - 1964 A. D.
IF THIS decade, like so many before it, has
been for some a decade of hate, it has also been
for many a decade of love, a decade of murder
but also martyrdom, of sacrifice as well as re
vulsion. It has changed us Americans, and it has
changed us for the betterf It has demonstrated,
as Mr. Lewis points out, the extraordinary role
of a law as a shaper of opinion and conviction
in this country. It has given birth to a younger
generation who have kept their heads sufficient
ly cool, their hearts sufficiently open and their
Christian values sufficiently honest to be able
to practice non-violence in the face of the al
most intolerable provocation. Margaret Anderson,
a white teacher in a Clinton, Tennessee high
school, has written of the children who “are
reconciled to making martyrs of themselves for
their race." "We hope,” she adds, “the future
will justify their sacrifice."
It is difficult to believe that the future can
ignore the decade 1954-1964. The second Ameri
can revolution has Introduced a standard of ser
vice and dedication into the formerly too abstract
American ideals of personal dignity. “The glow
from that fire will truly light the world” -
in John F. Kennedy’s words - please God.
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ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE, PAGE 7
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (NC)—Dr.
Kyle Haselden, new editor of
the Christian Century a nation
al, non-denominational maga
zine, said here that changes in
liturgy in the Catholic Church
nave "made it possible for
Protestants to understand what
Catholics are doing.*'
Dr. Haselden spoke at the an
nual Christian Heritage Day
ceremonies (Oct. 25). The oc
casion was formerly called Re
formation Sunday, but its name
has been changed locally by the
sponsoring group, the Louis
ville Area Council of Churches,
in the spirit of ecumenism.
DR, HASELDEN, an obser
ver at the second session of
the Vatican Council, is a Bap
tist minister who has served in
churches in New York, Minne
sota and West Virginia. He said
in an interview that with parts
of the Mass soon to be in the
vernacular, "Protestants have
found many similarities in our
services,*’
He had high praise for Pope
John XXIII, whom he called,
"a daring, visionary man with
a beautiful, loving spirit.*’
"We Protestants sayheisthe
best pope we ever had,*’ he
commented,
HE SAID Protestant leaders
have decided that Pope Paul
VI is an "open door Pope"—
a phrase he said he prefers to
the "vague term liberal’.*’
Changes in the Catholic
Church, Dr, Haselden said, have
"removed ignorance (on the
part of non-Catholics) and have
made for less suspicion, less
bigotry.*’
THE Baptist leader did not,
however, predict full union of
Christian churches. He said in
his talk at the Christian Herit
age Day ceremonies that "we
are tempted to believe oneness
is sameness — everyone think
ing alike. This is not what God
wants. God wants a communi
ty of differences.*’ In the inter
view he added that all Christians
are members of the invisible
church "without belonging to a
particular church."
Dr. Haselden said one of the
Sees Bishops
VATICAN CITY (NC)— The
Czechoslovakian bishops at
tending the Vatican council have
been received in audience by
Pope Paul VL He also received
Manuel Cardinal Goncalves
Cerejeira, Patriarch of Lisbon,
and Alfredo Cardinal Otta-
viani of the Roman Curia.
important accomplishments of
the ecumenical movement is the
admission from Catholics and
Protestants that "we both made
mistakes." He quoted a Chinese
philosopher's adage, "Let us
agree to differ and resolve to
love."
THE move toward Christian
unity he called "eschatalogical,
that toward which we slowly
always will be moving, but prob
ably not in history attain.**
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returns. They call to your attention how much (or
how little) you are spending for charity.
Saying, hopefully, that we intend to contribute
our tithe to the church and church - sponsored
charities, what would you consider a resonable
division?That is, about what percent to'the parish
church, how much to domestic misions, foreigT
missions,* the-peor, schools, etc.?
mand part of it; missions should receive special
attention; and many welfare agencies are de
serving, especially those which help the poor and
the derelict.
Each tithing donor should work out a generaliz
ed budget of his own, and make sure of the worth
iness of the recipients. Mailed appeals are often
not the most deserving.
ARMLD VIEWING
Tate Is The Hunter’
BY JAMES W. ARNOLD
8noiJ8Sfn»S7b If'niloq oirfaJoeqesT 01 aovloemoiDiiJni in his “second
A. The tithing program, which is becoming, second death?
more common and is frequently urged as a
Q. What happened to Lazarus after Christ
raised.him form the dead? Is anything known of
Life, or how he Met Ms
means of
supporting our churches, usually re
commends that a total of ten
per cent be given to religious
and charitable causes. It is sug
gested that this be divided, with
five per cent to your own parish
and five per cent to all other
appeals and activities in which
you may be interested.
Your parish contribution
would include the parochial
school. I would have no sound
basis for suggesting how the other five per cent
should be divided: United Fund appeals would de-
A. All we really know are a few refrences
found in John 12. Lazarus was a guest with
Jesus at a dinner in Bethany, a crowd of Jews
came to see him, and this same crowd hailed
Jesus on His Palm Sunday entrance into Jeru
salem .-
There is a tradition that Lazarus and Ms two
sisters, together with a number of other dis
ciples of our Lord, were put on a boat by enemios
of Christianity and sent out to sea without sails,
oars, or rudder. 11160 after a miraculousvoyago
they landed in southern France. It is supposed
that Lazarus later became Bishop of Marse
illes and a martry to the Faith.
EUROPE’S VIEW
Your World And Mine
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4
only nuclear weapons ever used militarily were
American bombs dropped on Aslans. To 1 repeat
the process for simple military convenience
would, they insist, arouse racist reactions and
unite all Asians and Africans against America and
her Western allies. My discussions and obser
vations in Pakistan, India, Vietnam and Japan
convince me that this European judgment is cor
rect. The threat of a north-south axis uniting
the rest of the world against the white race, with
Japan as a key element in the non-white bloc,
is a nightmare beside which the Cold War is a
peaceful dream.
Europeans are quick to point out that our
failure to establish racial justice and har
mony at home automatically becomes support
ing evidence against us in such a situation. As
they see it, and again I agree, the racial strife
of recent years within the United States has harm
ed American world leadership and the Western
Alliance more than our reverses in South-East
Asia or de Gaulle's sniping or the entire Com
munist propaganda effort. Every European is
familiar with pictures of switchblades in Harlem
and police dogs in Birmingham. While he for
gives the former as the human reaction of the
victim of social injustice, he interprets the lat
ter as proof that America cannot impose the
rule of law on its extremists.
EXTREMISM in high places is undoubtedly
what Europeans most dislike and fear about our
country. They ask with increasing frequency if
the current trend towards control of party mac
hinery by extremists will not render unwork
able a two-party system which depends for
its functioning on a concensus concerning basic
issues, especially foreigb policy. The point is
crucial, they insist, because of the inelasticity
of the U. S. Constitutional macMnery.
Perhaps nothing infuriates Europeans quite as
much as the impact of domestic politics on foreign
policy. Wherever I went, 1 was asked if our
over-riding concern all tMs summer in South
Vietnam was not the November elections rather
than the lives and fortunes of the Vietnamese.
The question contained enough truth to hurt.
More than once I was told that the Gulf of Tonkin
incident, in which the Americans fired the first
shots, was the Administration’s answer to the
Opposition charge of “softness."
What utterly confuses Europeans is that a spe
cial interest in Congress can gouge chunks out
of a national policy, to the discomforture of the’
State Department and the outrage of the foreign
individuals or states that suffer. They tell about
a European manufacturer who doubled his plant
capacity to cope with firm long-term orders
from an American distributor of his product,
only to have his market closed when Congress
arbitraily cut the quota. He was bankrupted.
That the story has a factual basis is demon
strated by what is happening to meet imports
in this election year. Pressed by the cattle
men's lobby, Congress voted a major cut in quo
tas. One result is that the United States uni
laterally repudiates an agreement signed ear
lier this year by the President fixing the amount
of meat Australia may import each year. The
State Department condemned the bill in Congress
and the Administration opposed it. Yet the Pre
sident did not veto it . as he should logically
have done.
SUCH POLITICKING against the national int
erest occurs at the very moment when the United
States is preparing its position for the Kennedy
Round of tariff cuts and quota eliminations at
Geneva . How, the Europeans ask, can we
expect them to take us seriously in our claim
that we stand for freer trade and for the obser
vance in good faith of freely undertaken interna
tional obligations?
In a word, Europe fears that the United States
still thinks that international order can be main
tained and justice administered by a frontier
sheriff who plays it by ear, confident that he
can draw faster than the bad guy.
“Fate is the Hunter" is a hypertense picture
about a commercial airline crash, which argues
for the old rule-of-thumb philosophy espoused
by pilots, soldiers, race drivers and others
in hazardous occupations: if your number's not
up, why worry; if it is, what can you do about it?
Hamlet said it more elegantly: “There are
more tMngs in heaven and earth, Horatio, than
are dreamt of in your philo
sophy." Now and then the film
circles onto this issue-whether
there is a purposeful Provi
dence behind apparently mean
ingless human tragedy - but it
doesn’t push too hard. One can
accept God, or fate, or the law
of averages, or blind random
I chance. But the poin* is that man
is only partially a master of his
dMday.
Intellectuals may see "Hunter" as a challenge
either to scientism, which says there is natural
explanation for everything if one only looks hard
enough, or to more fashionable existentialism,
which says (to put it over-simply) that there is no
explanation but madness for anything. But it is
far from a highbrow picture.
Instead “Hunter" is a skillful but highly arti
ficial melodrama concocted by scenarist Harold
Medford from the 1961 book of autobiographical
reminiscences by pilot-novelist Ernest K. Gann
("The High and Mighty"). Meford has woven
Gann's theme and some of his anecdotes into a
fictional detective story: why did the crash (which
we see in unnerving detail in 10 fast minutes be
fore the credits) happen? Was the pilot criminally
reckless?
The "detective" is a tough-minded airline
executive (Glenn Ford) trying to get both his com--
pany and the dead pilot (Rod Taylor) off the hook.
Ford is the traditional scientific skeptic who
eventually comes to realize that there are more
intangibles in life than he thought. The cause of
the crash is almost mystical; the pilot is not the
jolly flyboy stereotype he seemed.
INTENDED AS a first-class art film, this might
have been heady stuff. But Meford and director
Ralph Nelson (“Lilies of the Field") prefer to
exploit it for hard-sell conflict and the cheap, ob
vious thrills. It works, on the desired level. There
is plenty of contrived excitement, but no meaning
ful, long-term impact.
The hapless Ford is also thrust into a fight for
a vice-presidency (he is responsible for per
sonnel, competitor Nehemiah Persoff for the
plane’s mechanical condition). He fights with the
boss, who wants to blame the pilot to appease the
public; he fights the press who are, as usual, stu
pid and supercilious (and outrageously libeled); he
fights the victims’ lawyers, seeking their pound
of flesh.
One of the passengers is a little girl; Neslon
twists the heartbreak by making her a Negro, then
does not spare us the sight of the broken doll in
the wreckage. One is constantly aware of the "sta
ging" of scenes: in a courtroom, a deserted han
gar. The most obvious example is a re-run of the
original flight with Ford at the controls - a
parallel to the climax in a mystery when Charlie
Chan re-enacts the crime, somebody turns out the
lights, and the women scream. The actors are
nearly splashed about the same landscape a se-v
cond time.
THE SOLE survivor, a pretty stewardess
(Suzanne Pleshette), is urged to forget her ter
rible memories and join the experiment, because
only she knows every detail of what happened.
The poor thing is pondering tMs goshawful sug
gestion when bellhop shows up with her uni
form, cleaned and pressed. For this indelicacy,
Ford is refused. But you can guess who arrives
at the last moment when the plane is about to
tax out to the runway.
The artificial aura persists as Ford searches
out his clues "Dragnet"-style, by tracking down
a motley group of pseudo-real witnesses who
over-act their bits: a vulgar bartender, a nosy
landlady, a spoiled rich girl (Dorothy Malone),
an idealistlc-but-sexy scientist (Nancy Kwan, in
terviewed in a bizzare fish lab at Marineland),
a meek radio repairman (Wally Cox), a grateful
alocoholic (Mark Stevens), Even Jane Russell
shows up, as lively as a cirgar store Indian.
Nelson manipulates everytMng shrewdly, in
cluding the juggling of at least four flashbacks.
The air action is tense and slickly edited, and
the frequent verbal arguments have the spark
and crackle of TV drama, if not real life. The
crash investigation sequences seem as authentic
as any documentary, and there is one nicely
poignant moment when Miss Pleshette gives her
canned “welcome aboard" speech to a planeful
of inexpressive sandbags.
Ford's crisp acting is utterly professional; it
is so superior to contributions by others that one
almost wants to indict him for Inhumanity to man.
Taylor, virile and likeable, has so muchfunham
ming it up as a happy-go-lucky type you wonder
if he may have bought his way into the cast.
For all its drawbacks, "Hunter" gives a full
return on the box-office dollar. It is also that
rare film in which all the major characters are
basically decent people whom one can readily
imagine, not so much as victims of chance, but
as reasonalby worth the attention of Providence.
CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS:
Superior: Behold a Pale Horse.
For special tastes: Night of the Iguana, A Hard
Day’s Night, Four Days in
November.
Better than most: Topkapi, Mafioso, One Potato,
Fate is the Hunter.
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God Love You
BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN
Are you worried about the condition of the Church, your
Church, in other parts of the world? Are you wondering
why the poverty of the bishops at the Council has been a re
curring theme in this column? We hope you are. We know
that you would be worried, and no longer wonder, if you could
be here in Rome with us. Then you would see that you can
not judge the Church in the world by the Church in the United
States.
United States are living in a Palm Sunday of
prosperity for which we than^Gqj}. But in
< throughput, the worjd
Christ is living in different Gospel scenes.
Christ is in China today as if His Body were
once more in the Tomb on Holy Saturday.
In Japan He is weeping again over a city
where few wipe away His tears. Behind
the Iron Curtain He is being buffeted bet
ween Pilates and Herods who daily condemn
Him to death. He is being chased from the
Sudan and the Congo as He was once driven from the land of
the Gerasenes. In the slums of Latin America He cries un
recognized in the poor: “The foxes have holes, the birds
of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay
His Head."
It is this persecuted Christ that we see in over half of the
bishops at the Council. They are here as the representatives
of Christ living in the Mystical Body throughout the world.
You read about the Council in the press, but I tell you that
there is an agonizing, suffering, impoverished Church in session
here. You read only about ideas , but most of the bishops
here live either on the verge of poverty or in danger of per
secution.
We who live in comparative peace and comfort are a part
of this persecuted Christ. What is little for us to give in the
name of Christ may sustain the life of Christ in another.
Take, for example, the words of one bishop who wrote
me in Rome to thank me for 210 one dollar Mass stipends:
“Such aid means alotforourpoor diocese. This aid is enough
for the living and transportation expenses of two missiona
ries for a whole year." How this makes us think of the words
of St. Paul: “Of course, I do not mean that others should
be relieved to an extent that leaves you in distress. It is a
matter of share and share alike. At present your plenty should
supply their need, then at some future time their plenty may
supply your need. In that way we share with each other."
As the Old Testament says of manna: "He that gathered such
had nothing over- and he that gathered little had no lack."
Another bishop wrote to tell me: “I must leave the Coun
cil. I just received news that two villages in my diocese were
surrounded by a group of unidentified men. Eight were kill
ed, 30 wounded, 400 houses burned and almost 3,000
of my good people are without food and shelter. Abyss cr
ies out to abyss. Can you help.me?"
In the name of Christ crucified, may I ask you to help
our brother bishops and priests and religious and faithful
throughout the world? Will you heed this Christ appeal? Who
will heed this Christ appeal? Who will? The rich? The com
fortable? The benefactors of 'million dollar’ schools and chur
ches? The poor in spirit? Remember, the Holy Father’s
Society for the Propagation of the Faith is theonly mission
organization in the world that aids the Missions everywhere,
Christ everywhere. Thank you and God love you.
GOD LOVE YOU to M. O. M. for $3.45 “I have been ac
customed to spending this amount on myself each week-
just for chocolates I How ashamed of myself I felt when I read
about the poor missionary bishops. This is the beginning of
a weekly offering for those who can put it to much better
use than I." . . . to M. J. B. for $1,000 "For the Holy Fath
er’s Missions. I was so busy that there didn’t seem to be
time for a vacation. Now it gives me more pleasure to send
him the money than to take a vacation trip. I am 68 years
old and am still working."
Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to it and mail it
to Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, National Director of The So
ciety for the - Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue,
New York, New York 10001, or to your Diocesan Director,
Rev. Harold J. Rainey P. 0. Box 12047 Northside Station
Atlanta 5, Georgia.