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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1964 GEORIGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5 NOT BLOCKBUSTING Changing Neighborhoods REV. LEONARD F. X. MAYHEW The Emory- Druid Hills area of Atlanta is a neighborhood of tree-shaded streets, manicured lawns and substantial, sometimes even stately, brick homes. The casual wanderer through these streets receives a strong impression of good taste mellowed, rather than scarred, by age. The sprawling complex of the Emory University campus sets a tone of quiet beauty for the sur rounding neighborhoods. The University is the lar gest employer, in one fashion or another, of the people who live in the section. This neighborhood, formerly one of the most fashionable in the Atlanta area, is to be the scene of a subtle and, at once, morally potent, undertaking, conceived by the Atlanta Coun cil on Human Relations and its young Acting-Executive Director, Robert Carey. He explained the plan, some ten days ago, to the St. Martin’s Human Relations Council of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. An intelligent, soft-spoken theological student, with a ready sense of humor and a gift for under-statement, he hardly re sembles the diehard, anticivil rights caricature of the Yankee agent provocateur. LIKE ALL major American cities, north and south, Atlanta has almost completely confined the areas where Negroes may live within cer tain rigid boundaries. The variety of ways, for mal and informal, legal and extra-legal, in which this is accomplished are, in their own depressing way, to be marvelled at. The ur gent need for adequate, low-and middle-cost housing for the burgeoning population of these ghettoes is a problem of such proportion that only government, federal and local, can possi bly hope to cope with it, and that only by taking immediate and drastic steps. This terrible shame of American cities is clearly beyond the facili ties and scope of a Council on Human Relations. The front on which Mr. Carey and the Atlanta Council are engaged is a moral one- a struggle for the conscience and maturity of human beings and their relationships with each other; what we drily name “society.” Their aim is to introduce into the experience of our city, as a model and a moral stimulus, an “open” neighborhood which willingly accepts the idea of an unrestricted housing market. It bears no more resemblance to “block-busting” than the dead leaves which now burden our lawns bear to the dogwood- scented spring when they were born. SUCH A PLAN calls for a quiet beginning through contacts with individuals who are aware of the immaturity of artificial social restrictions and of the deprivations suffered by those on both sides of the barriers. These are then expanded into neighborhood conversations concerned with the present situation versus a free or open housing policy. The consequences of both conditions may be examined. If the situation is conducive to honesty and personal involvement, the real fears (as opposed to those commonly admitted) that whites feel at the thought of Negro neigh bors will come to the surface. Churches, schools, banks, civic organizations and other institutions which influence opinions will be asked for their help, encouragement or, at least, non-hindrance. The hoped-for fruition will come, when a neigh borhood community makes it known that it is willing to accept - and indeed, invites- those who wish to share its life, without any artifi cial restrictions. Such a plan may strike some as vague or over-subtle. The fact is that it em bodies several of the remedies for chronic ills of American society. The lack of real com munity, the divorce of moral values from actual living, the terrible alienation of the white and Ne gro in America with its consequent waste of human talent and energy: these may find the beg inning of their cure in the “open neighborhood” and its new and fruitful relationships. QUESTION BOX Why Liturgy Changes? BY MSGR. J. D. CONWAY Q. Will you please explain why this change of liturgy in our church is necessary. We are getting mighty disturbed and confused how to cope with it all If our parents and grandparents who have died before us were able to get to heaven with liturgy as it has been, why can’t we? A. Your parents or grandparents were able to make their trips with a horse and buggy. Why doiyoy ride jets? . Your f parehts, or at least your grandparents, received Holy Communion at Christmas, Eas ter, and the feast of the Assu mption. We hope they got to heaven. But aren’t you aware of greater graces through your union with Jesus in His sacra ment of love every Sunday, or maybe every day? My earliest memories of High Mass center around the mean ingless, and threateningly end less, repetition of Latin words, sung to cheap and gaudy music by a medio cre choir, while the congregation sat in silent boredom. Gregorian chant was fought with fero city in those days. But who would think of going back to those beloved monstrosities? My earliest Communions were concerned more with the integrity of my fast from mid night than with the joy of union with my Savior. My early priesthood was inhibited by avoiding a single drop of water until after the last Mass- which during war times was often the third Mass at 1 p.m. What a headachel with the priest. But we were still silent specta tors, with no awareness of community action and participation. Two features of the Mass im pressed us; It was the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary, and He became truly present at the mo ment of Consecration. The joys of a banquet with Jesus and the fellowship of a feast togeth er were quite obscured. We received our Sav ior dying on the cross; we had little apprecia tion of the triumph of His Resurrection— of glorious union with each other in the love of our common Father. My pQ,iot,is..that the.liturgy has been chang ing during the past 60 years, especially. The earlier changes we now take for grant ed; and all of them have given new meaning, new spiritual joy, and increased intimacy to our worship of God. Review in your own mind the liturgical chan ges of the past 20 years: evening Masses, new fasting rules for Communion, the new cere monies of Holy Week, English in many of the Sacraments, mixed marriages in church rath er than in a dreary rectory, increased parti cipation of the people in the Mass, improved music, greatly increased Communions, better sermons in many places-andincreasing close ness between priest and people. The new changes to take place in the near future- if we will be patient and cooperative in them — will produce multiplied benefits which we will enjoy and take for granted in a few years. Changes are necessary because the Church is alive, and growth is a feature of life. Changes take place because the world changes, and we must live and work out our sanctity in the chang ing world, sanctifying it as we live in it. When I went to college I had a m issal; 25 years earlier they had been forbidden things. This taught me more about the Mass than I had ever suspected before, but it still meant that the priest was going his way in mumbled Latin, and I was trying to follow him in hurried English. In the seminary the Mass became more mean ingful when we were able to follow it in Latin The changes are being made that the true meaning of the Mass may become clear to us; that we may hear Jesus speak to us, that we may all join together with one another and with Jesus in offering our prayers to the Father, that our offering of sacrifice may be a clear and gene rous giving in unison, that our sacrifice may be more impressively through Christ, with Christ and in Christ; and that our Communion may be more strikingly a joyful supper of reunion with Jesus and with each other. ELECTION EXAMPLE Your World And Mine CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 guide was an official of the Honest Ballot As sociation, and they were fascinated to learn of the existence of such a voluntary association with membership open to all, and of its work to ensure that every voter knows his rights and that his vote will be recorded and counted. “If we could only get our people to realize what they can do for themselves,” one commented, as he listened to the story of how public opinion has been harnessed in the United States to eliminate the election abuses that were rife as recently as fifty years ago. My discussions with this group stressedforme once again something I had been observing during my travels in Europe, Asia and Africa during the past twelve months. Our recent election was bitterly contested not only in the United States but throughout the world. The polls show ed a decisive majority on one side within the country, but what is curious is that in the entire outside world there was even more overwhelm ing support for the same side. THIS IS one of the most consistent elements in the world picture of the United States. Those who like us and those who dislike us, the rich and the poor, the politically reactionary and the politically progressive, all for their own reasons viewed with dismay the growth of isolationist feeling which they associated with the Goldwater image. “In our case it goes back to the Good Neigh bor policy of Franklin D. Roosevelt,” one Latin American told me. “He was the first to treat us as equals. And John F. Kennedy moved for ward from neighborliness to partnership in the Alliance. Of course, we want to see a strong United States, but strength in isolation is a con tradiction in terms. We are in this together,” “IF WE expressed ourselves in such partisan terms about the Issues in your elections, you would immediately accuse us of Interference in your internal affairs,” I countered. My friend smiled a trifle ruefully. '*You are absolutely right,” he replied. “But you have to remember that the w^ak have privileges denied to the strong.” That morsel of philosophy is perhaps worthy of reflection by the Republican brains trust currently engaged on a post-mor tem leading to a new program. NELSON RIVES REALTY 3669 CLAIRMONT ROAD CHAMBLEE, GEORGIA REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE SALES, RENTALS RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY PHONE: 451-2323 Ed Curtin Presents DIOCESAN CLERGY concelebrate Mass with their Bishop, as will happen often under the new Constitution on the Liturgy. Bishop Albert R. Zuroweste of Belleville, Ill., concelebrated Mass with 12 of his priests at a recent diocesan clergy liturgi cal day, with special permission obtained in Rome from the Commission for Execution of the Liturgical Decree. DE PAUL SPEAKER Bulletin Classifieds Calls Social Conscience Weapon In Poverty War 231-1281 NEW YORK (NC) — Sound economics alone will notwin the war against poverty, a social research expert said here, “and the social conscience of America must be awakened to the realization that it is not enough.” Msgr. Paul Furfey, director of the Bureau of Social Research at the Catholic University of American in Washington, ad dressed the annual St. Vincent de Paul Convocation at St. John's University here. MSGR. Furfey cited three examples of what he called the “tragic fact that the worst crimes of history are com mitted with the cooperation, or at least with the passive ac quiescence, of decent and re spectable citizens’ - ; —The slaughter of more than five million Jews, not by spe cially selected killers but by ‘‘a remarkable cross-section of the German population.” — American Negro slave traffic, supported “not by ir responsible sadists, but respec table colonial gentlemen.” —’The slaughter of the in nocent at Hiroshima and Na gasaki” which he compared to the slaughter of the innocent at Dachau or Buchenwald. THESE examples, he said, Archbishop Dies GUATEMALA CrTY (NC)— Archbishop Mariano Rossell y Arellano of Guatemala has died here at the age of 70. Archbis hop Mario Casariego, who has been acting as his coadjutor, succeeds him as head of the archdiocese. Saints in Black and White ST. URSULA 122 r /> u r ACROSS She vu killed in year 4-3 mica of muscovite She Is one In abundance South Seas port bird cry square measure rings She Is the patro- ne*j of young Jewlah scholar warrant puppet sheath (French) American Painter, John —~ She Is a ——to ^ teacher* 35 Canadian territory 87 check: (Scot) She sought —- in Gaul three masted ship fish eggs pertaining to reddish brown klUed sack (abbr) Great Britain (abbr) horror fallacy cheer parts 6 10 13 14 15 16 17 10 31 33 35 36 38 80 38 40 42 43 45 47 48 50 63 64 66 58 rasp 10 61 superior quality 18 (French) 20 63 lists 23 65 dolts 24 68 entrepot 27 68 brother’s daughter 29 70 poetry 31 71 telling blow 32 73 daughter of 34 Saturn 36 75 resort 39 70 feeling 41 79 a carat 44 81 adjective forming 46 suffix 48 82 suffix of condition 49 8) Dravidian 51 85 Jerky motion 53 87 Spanish epic 55 88 suffer (8cot.) 89 charter 57 59 DOWN eo 1 note-music 62 2 labor union 64 3 ceremony 67 4 forest 69 5 annually 72 6 Chinese pagoda 74 7 apprentice (abbr) 75 8 fibbed 77 9 rebound 73 10 chtder 30 11 100 cubic feet 12 Goddess of Dawn 84 13 grills 86 place of conflict Dakota Indian deliberate floats accepts bay peer Aphrodite's son vegetable great excellence approaches lesser approximate date punctuation mark Scandinavian A.U. depressed memento flies She was — to shameful outrage* smooth nation theme ages careless writing tithe (Scot) weird bellow Norse tale Egyptian measure Fatima’s husband never( German) Type genus (pi) abbr regarding French article point out “the sharp split be tween individual conscience and social conscience.” Msgr. Furfey reviewed the life of St. Vincent de Paul, especially how he was convert ed from a benefice - seeking priest to an apostle of charity. “From the time of the New Deal there has been a con sistent governmental policy of social legislation designed to cope with the common vicissi tudes of life. However, many of these good laws are tied to employment,” the priest said. He added that they “do not meet the real problems of the sub-proletariat. Social re form has a tendency to by pass the slums.” MORE than anything else the poor need understanding, Msgr. Furfey said. “Not money, but understanding, can break down the psychological isolation which segregates them,“hede clared. The pogr are isolated from sharing in our American heritage because they are grossly impoverished, they live below the health-and-decency level and belong to families where the breadwinner is chro nically unemployed, he said. 'Twentieth-century America needs a St. Vincent, a leader who can shake the average American out of his com placency and can teach him to be concerned with his neigh bor not as an economic ab straction, but as a person, as the object of a burning Chris tian love,” Msgr. Furley stated. ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE, PAGE 7 ADVISOR — First military chaplain assigned as an ad visor to the Army Surgeon General is Chaplain (Col.) Joseph S. Chmielewski, a priest of the Diocese of Tren ton, N. J., and a chaplain since early in World War II. Msgr. Chmielewski will assist chaplains on duty in Army hospitals, promoting closer liaison on behalf of patients' spiritual and temporal needs. God Love You BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN Have you ever thought of how many of us during the Christ mas season worry about the presents we must buy for those close to us or those who expect one from us and how few of us ever think of giving just one present to someone too poor, too helpless, too diseased, too far away from our lux urious world, to expect anything? And yet, is it not in the giving of the unexpected gift out of Christian charity that our Christ mas becomes Christ-like? Numerous agencies provide ways for the generous to give a n impersonal present to “an unfortunate unknown’ but Our Lord has provided in His Mystical Body one very personal way - His Vicar on earth’s mission fund, the Holy Father’s Society for the Propagation of the Faith which aids the needy of the entire world. We cannot aid everyone with a gift, but we can aid him who can help everyone. In no other form 'Of charity does your money go directly’to the Holy Father and so adequately aid his Mis sions, as by an annuity taken out with The Society for the Pro pagation of the Faith. In considering an annuity, you might ask yourself the follow ing questions. 1) am I giving it to an institution or a society that already has much, or am I giving to the poor who have nothing? 2) Am I limiting it to one of the religious soci eties of the Church, many of whom help the Missions, or am I aiding all of them by allowing the Holy Father to make the distribution? 3) Am I giving it to someone who will invest it on a long-term basis or am 1 giving it to one, namely the Holy Father, who will allocate it the very year it is re ceived to the hungry and needy people of the world? If you answer the three questions in the affirmative, you will want to know the many other advantages of an annuity with The Society for the Propagation of the Faith. What is an annuity? Why is it providing most adequately for Our Lord’s poor when given to The Society for the Pro pagation of the Faith? An annuity is not for people who have extra money collecting dust. It is for those who have ade quate money but need it in trust. An annuity given this Christ mas is not merely an outright present, but a legal agreement whereby in return for a cash gift you are provided with a sure and fixed income for life. The amount of your income, returned to you semi-annually, depends upon your age and the amount you offer the Missions. Your gift benefits you here and now by adding worry-free days to your life and income tax savings to you now. By removing the annuity sum from your will, you avoid all estate tax consequences later. Your thoughtfulness now will provide for your spiritual as well as your temporal welfare. You will share in the good work :, Masses and other prayers of 300,000 missionaries of every order and congregation. When God transfers you to heaven, your annuity gift is transferred to the Holy Father who transfers it to the poor of the world. This Christmas when you are receiving Our Lord at Mass, He will be commemorating His birthday by suffering with two-thirds of the world who are tattered and starving. He will be bearing the agonies of eleven million lepers who still need treatment. A gift to those suffering in His Mystical Body can bring far-reaching effets in your life, eternity and world. But, most important, through an annuity contract with the Holy Father's mission fund you invest in the greatest business of the world— God’s business of saving mankind. By taking out an annuity to the SPOF, you are not merely giving to the starving. You are giving to Him, just as the Wise- Men who came with gifts on that first Christmas. If you wish to invest your hard-earned money securely tor a guaranteed, worry-free income and gain spiritual benefits this Christmas, write for our manual on annuities, giving your date of birth. Our address is: Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10001. God Love You! GOD LOVE YOU to E. H. for $50 "This is being sent as an act of love for God, as an act of thanksgiving for His bless ings and as an act of amendment for offending Him.” ... to H, A. for $100 "My husband just bought me a fur jacket for a Christmas gift. It made him very happy to buy it. It has been my observation that women who wear fur jackets seldom gave any donation. I do not wish to be one of those women. I plan to put aside $1 each time I wear the jacket and to Send it for charity as the amount reaches a worthwhile gift. To wear it in comfort I feel I must share it with the poor who have no warm coats.” Cur out t|iis column, pin your sacrifice to it and mail it to Most Reverend Fulton J. Sheen, National Director of The Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Faith Avenue, New York, New York 10001, or to your Diocesan Director, Rev. Harold J. Rainey, P. O. Box 12047, Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Georgia.