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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1964
NOBEL PRIZE
King Accepts Peace Award
‘On Behalf Of All Men’
OSLO, Norway (RNS)--Dr.
iMartin Luther King, Jr„ ac
cepting the 1964 Nobel Peace
Prize here, declared that the
coveted award went to him as
“profound recognition that non
violence is the answer to the
crucial political and moral*’
question of our time.
That question, the 35-year-
old Baptist clergyman stated,
is “the need for man to over
come oppression and violence
without resorting to violence
and oppression.*’
DR. KING—the youngest per
son ever to receive the prize—
gave his acceptance speech be
fore an audience that included
Norway’s King Olav V., govern
ment and diplomatic leaders,
members of his family and ci
vil rights associates.
He accepted the award, he
said, in behalf of the civil rights
movement “which is moving
with determination and majes
tic scorn for risk and danger
to establish a reign of freedon
and a rule of justice.”
Stating that he came to Oslo
as a “trustee,*’ Dr. King add
ed that he accepted the prize
“on behalf of all men who love
peace and brotherhood,’*
Civilization and violence
Bishops Want
Liberty Text
DURHAM, N. H. (NC^-Con
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the ecumenical council was not
over whether there should be a
document on religious liberty,
but over what kind of a state
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Addressing a Newman Club
dinner here, Bishop Primeau
said that “with few exceptions
the bishops of the Catholic
Church desire a document on
religious liberties.*'
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are antithetical concepts,*’ the
civil rights leader said. “Neg
roes of the United States, fol
lowing the people of India, have
demonstrated that nonviolence
is not sterile passivity, but a
powerful moral force which
makes for social transform
ation.
“SOONER or later, all the
people of the world will have
to discover a way to live to
gether in peace, and thereby
transform this pending cosmic
elegy into a creative psalm of
brotherhqod.*’
Dr. King, tracing the ‘ tor
tuous road*’ followed by civil
rights forces “from Montgom
ery, Alabama, to Oslo,* said
a “new era of progress and
hope" has been opened in the
American struggle for racial
justice.
Expressing an “abiding faith
in America and an audacious
faith in the future of mankind,*’
he said he refused to accept
"the cynical notion that nation
after nation must spiral down
a militaristic stairway into the
hell of thermonuclear destruc
tion.
“I believe that unarmed truth
and unconditional love will have
the final word in reality. This
is why right temporarily defeat
ed is stronger than evil trium
phant.”
I STILL believe,” he add
ed, ' that one day mankind will
bow before the altars of God
and be crowned triumphant over
war and bloodshed, and nonvio
lent redemptive goodwill will
proclaim the rule of the land
...I still believe that we shall
overcome.”
Dr. King, whose acceptance
of the award was recorded on
movie film by his mother, was
hailed by Gunnar Jahn, chair
man of the Nobel Committee
of the Norwegian Parliament
as “the first person in the
Western world to have shown
us that a struggle can be waged
without violence,”
Ha paid additional tribute to
the Baptist minister as a man
“who has never abandoned his
faith in the unarmed struggle
he is waging, who has suffer
ed for his faith, been imprison
ed on many occasions, whose
home has been subjected to
bomb atacks, whose life and
those of his family have been
threatened, and who neverthe
less has'never faltered,*’
THE Nobel award carries
with it a cash prize of $53,123,
all of which Dr. King said would
be spent on the civil rights
movement.
The day following the award
ceremonies, Dr. King issued a
call for an economic boycott
of Mississippi unless other
means can attain ' justice for
all men in that state."
He made the statement after
learning that U.S. Commis
sioner in Mississippi had re
leased 19 of 21 white men
arrested in connection with the
June 21 slaying of three civil
rights workers in the state.
The release followed the
commissioner's refusal to ac
cept FBI testimony concerning
an alleged “confession” made
by one of the defendants. Feder
al authorities, saying the com
missioner's move was unpre
cedented at a preliminary hear
ing, indicated a grand jury would
be called to take further action.
Educators Plan
L A Convention
LOS ANGELES @s'C)—-Nearly
2,500 members of the National
Catholic Educational Associa
tion will convene Dec. 21-22 at
Loyola University to discuss
“Academic Committment —the
Challenge of Our Day.*'
Brig. Gen. J. S. Bleymaier,
Deputy Commander for Manned
Systems at Air Force Space
Systems Division, will be among
the speakers at the regional
meeting of the association’s
secondary school department.
Father Gerard S, Sloyan, di
rector of religious education at
the Catholic University of
America, Washington, D, C„
will speak on “What the High
School Religion Program Can
Hope to Achieve.”
IN PHILADELPHIA
Sister Relation
Between Parishes
HONG KONG’S Bishop Lawrence Bianchi administers Con
firmation to these young mothers while making his Christ
mas visit to the parish of Our Lady of the Angels, where
Father Arthur Dempsey, M.M., is pastor. Assisting him are
Maryknoll Fathers John E. Geitner and Eugene A. Thalman.
REDUCK COLLECTION
Farmers Pressure
Priest To Resign
GILROY, Cal. (RNS)~Pres-
sure from local Catholic grow
ers has forced a priest active
in the farm labor movement in
the San Francisco archdiocese
to resign his post as co-chair
man of the Interfaith Migrant
Committee.
Father Ronald Burke, who
helped a Presbyterian minister
found the committee in October
1963, said he resigned the of
fice at his pastor’s request, but
will continue as an active mem
ber.
SUNDAY collections in the
parish have dropped 20 per cent
in recent weeks and a delega
tion of farmers asked his re
moval from the parish.
The IMC, with about 75 ac
tive members, conducted a
summer school for Spanish
speaking children of farm work
ers, provided health clinics, and
has shown films in Spanish on
health and welfare subjects.
It cooperates with the Catho
lic Migrant Mission Program,
of which Father Burke is also
a director.
At recent hearings for the
U.S. Department of Labor In
San Francisco, the IMC pre
sented a statement opposing the
further importation of foreign
farm workers.
“LOW WAGE scales and ac
companying conditions of em
ployment In farm labor are
hurting not just the laborer but
the independent farmer as well,
especially, the farmer with a
conscience,” the statement
said.
“We believe that eliminat
ing cheap labor will help break
the strangle-hold of corporation
monopoly control of California
fruits and vegetables.”
IT ALSO accused the govern
ment of aiding the large corp
oration farms at the expense
of the independent farmer by
providing “a desperately docile
and readily abundant foreign la
bor force.”
Father Burke was formerly
a member of the Spanish Mis-
Oppose Creche
sions Band, a group of arch
diocesan priests who served
both migrants and braceros a-
like, until they were disbanded
three years ago.
He has also served as arch
diocesan moderator of the
Young Christian Workers.
PHILADELPHIA (RNS>— A
“sister” relationship has been
established between a Negro
Roman Catholic parish in a
blighted section of North Phil
adelphia and a suburban white
parish in a pilot program spon
sored by the Commission on
Human Relations of the Phila
delphia archdiocese.
The city parish is St. Eliza
beth's, which has a large num
ber of poor and underprivileged
Negroes in its midst; an adult
congregation of about 2,000 and
about 850 children in its school.
TS SUBURBAN “sister” pa
rish is Sacred Heart, atManoa,
on the Main Line. The first ac
tivity was a cash offering for
food certificates and the collec
tion of food for Christmas bas
kets by the suburban parish to
enable St. Elizabeth's to pro
vide for some of its needy at
Christmas.
The longer-range plan calls
for visitation between the two
parishes, occasional exchange
of choirs; joint Holy Name
breakfasts and basketball
games between the youth
groups.
*'It is a small start, but a
significant one that we hope will
be meaningful in terms of rac
ial understanding and Christian
brotherhood,” said the Rev.
Philip J. Dowling, executive
secretary of the Human Rela
tions Commission.
THE REV. John J. McHale,
director of St. Elizabeth’s, and
the Rev, Thomas B, Falls, of
the Manoa parish, also express
ed enthusiasm over the experi
ment.
St. Elizabeth's was one of the
first large Catholic parishes in
any U.S. city to undergo tran
sition. In 1937, it had a mem
bership of 1,000 white families,
but there was a mass exodus
that within five years left it
almost a ghost parish.
With some financial as
sistance, the parish has grad
ually been rebuilt. It has a mod
ern school, just built to replace
the original that was destroyed
by fire. One of its services is
a free hot lunch to compensate
those who lack proper feeding
in their homes,
FATHER McHale has been
rector for eight years, and in
this time approximately 100
adults and 150 children a year
have been confirmed.
Besides the economic plight
of many of the people, there is
the problem of them being tran
sitory and difficult to keep track
of Father McHale observed.
Mass From N.Y.
NEW YORK (NC)—The Na
tional Broadcasting Company
will televise Christmas Mid
night Mass from St. Patrick’s
cathedral here. Auxiliary Bis
hop John J. Maguire, vicar
general of the archdiocese, will
be celebrant for the solemn
pontifical Mass. Msgr. Vincent
Kenney will preach.
SYRO - MALABAR R I t K
Archbishop Joseph Parekkat-
til of Emakulam. India, who
ordained 130 priests (Dec.
21 in one of the ceremonies
of the 38th Intel-national Eu
charistic Congress in Bom
bay. The Syro-Malabar Rite
traces its origin to Indian
converts of St. Thomas the
Apostle; it is found in south
west India, and bears a
strong stamp of Indian cul
ture. including use of the
Malayalani language in wor
ship.
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BIDDULPH, England (NC) —
Despite protests from five An
glican and Protestant clergy
men, the city council here has
refused to withdraw permission
for a crib to be erected on a
downtown street by the Knights
of St. Coiumba, a Catholic lay
group. The clergymen main
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the crib for a Christmas tree
would cause “spiritual dis
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