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4 SEGREGATION RULING A Second Revolution Saints in Black and White THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5 EDITOR DECLARES ST. FRANCIS BORGIA If 121 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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(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.** NELSON RIVES REALTY 3669 CLAIRMONT ROAD CHAMBLEE, GEORGIA REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE SALES, RENTALS RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY PHONE: 451-2323 BY MSGR. J. D. CONWAY Q. There is one good point to income tax 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. Seminary Fund Remetnber the SEMINARY FUND of the Archidocese of Atlanta in your Will. Bequests should be made to the “Most Reverend Paul J. Hallinan, Archbishop of the Catho lic Archdiocese .of Atlanta and his successors in office". Participate in the daily prayers of our semi narians and in the Masses offer ed annually for the benefactors of our SEMINARY FUND. 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.