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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1966 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3 ‘MAINLY IN THE NORTH 9 Groups’ Stress On Rights Shifting To Metro Areas EMPHASIS in the civil rights struggle, while still directed in large measure at the South, has been shifting to other parts of the country-- mainly metropolitan areas of the North. In this transition, churchmen and church groups have been prominent in outlining and starting pro grams aimed at solving the racial injustice pro blem nationally. As Congress reconvenes, they will be closely watching measures — to a high degree appropriations bills, with Vietnam expen ditures growing -- related to implementation of both the anti-poverty and civil rights laws new on the books. Probably the most ambitious of the strategy plans aimed at discrimination in the big cities is a massive $41.6 billion-a-year national econo mic program drawn up by a 32-member Steer ing Committee of Negro and white civic and re ligious leaders in New York. Called “Metropolitan Development for Equal Opportunity,’’ the proposal is actually a policy statement by the New York pre-White House Conference on Civil Rights. It will be presented in Washington, D.C., at the White House Con ference on Civil Rights scheduled for late this Spring. The plan calls for using public and pri vate resources for an attack on inadequate jobs, housing and education available to Negroes and deprived minorities. IN A SENSE, the plan represents both the hopes and fears of all civil rights leaders concerning the future of the equal justice movement. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, United Presbyterian lea der prominent in the rights struggle, made this clear as the plan was announced recently. “This is more serious than any outcome in Vietnam,” he said, “It is more important than getting a man on the moon... We must mobilize people to see that this is the most important long- range problem facing the United States, its society, its culture, its future. Unless we take ths problem seriously, we are just kidding ourselves.” Keeping alive concern for civil rights, in the hearts and minds of individual citizens, has been widely recognized as the key to achievement of any equal justice goals. As stated by Gov. William W. Scranton of Pennsylvania as he received the 1965 human relations award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the time has come for a new emphasis on “personal commit ment” toward solving problems of discrimina tion. Though the rights drive has gained much ground, the governor said, the “scene shifts noyi frem what has lone needed dqing i iq^the lawbooks stilf, needs to ,be done in the hehrtsgbf men... Tb^te- is no poweniin this world" strong enough to force us to love one another. This is between each of us and our common God, and in it, it seems to me, we face man’s oldest and most familiar enemy..fear -- fear of our selves and fear of each other.” SINCE THE "mass demonstration” period of the civil rights movement, a time highlight ed by large-scale interreligious cooperation, joint approaches by religious groups to problems of discrimination and segregation have continued a- cross the country. This has been particularly evident in the expansion of the civil rights drive to metropolitan areas in the North. In Detroit, Protestant and Jewish groups agreed to join the city’s Catholics in the maintenance of a joint office on race relations. The new interreligious venture will have a full time di rector and will be the successor to the pioneer ing “Project Equality” of the Detroit arch diocese. That project, which has been parallel ed in many other Catholic diocese, requires all suppliers and contractors dealing with the arch diocese or any of its churches or institutions to affirm fair employment policies. Nineteen Catholic and Protestant clergymen in a large racially-changing section of Northeastern Buffalo, N.Y., for the past nine months have been working together with increasing closeness and effectiveness. Triggered by the movement of Negroes into previously all-white neighborhoods, the organization has sponsored a series of well- attended neighborhood forums on open housing. Clergymen believe that the discussions have not only promoted more information and understand ing, but have provided a “safety valve” by bring ing fears and resentments into the open instead Of letting them build to the explosion point. AMONG OTHER metropolitan efforts, the Chi cago Conference on Religion and Race issued 100,000 copies of a leaflet on equal housing which calls on home owners to insist that any real estate contract for the sale of their property carry a non-discrimination clause. Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Boston plan a Conference on Religion and Race which will give first atten tion to the city’s tense school segregation pro blems. In Syracuse, N.Y., Catholic, Episcopal and Methodist bishops joined in a statement ur-ging the backing of a city school district plan that provides bus transportation to relieve racial im balance. A strong race aspect is involved in one of the pieces of legislation expected to occupy much time of the new Congress — home rule for the District of Columbia. Home rule for the nation’s capital — where at least half of the approxi mately 815,000 citizens are Negroes — has had the active support of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; the D.C. Coalition of Conscience, a group of about 40 church, civic and civil rights organizations in the city, and such outstanding local clergy men as Dean Francis Sayre of Washington Cathe dral (Episcopal). Dean Sayre has deplored Congressional rule of Washington, saying the city’s interests are subordinated to the interests of a small band of biisihessmen and their coterie of friends on Ca pitol Hill. Rep. JohnL.McMillan(D.-S.C.,)chair man of the House District Committee, recently renewed his opposition to home rule, claiming there are a number of "Comunist sympathizers” behind the measure. He commented: “Don’t get me wrong — there's a lot of good and well-meaning people in it (the home rule drive), but a lot Of people would just like to take the nation's capital over. Some of these are known to be Communist sympathizers.” AMONG THE churchmen who have called at tention to the “new stage” in the civil rights mo vement is Dr. Benjamin F. Payton, 32-year-old Negro Baptist clergyman who succeeded Dr. Ro bert W. Spike as director of the National Coun cil of Churches CommissiononReligion and Race. A sociologist who has been acitve in many anti poverty and racial and scarcity in an affluent society” and pledged that the NCC commission will continue “to take the initiative in setting priorities — both moral and technical -- for the resolution of America’s dilemma.” The commission director, who assumed his post at the first of the year, also discussed the "increasingly close cooperation” between Negro and white church bodies and predicted an in crease in this trend, even to the point of merger in some cases. He pointed out that the move of Negroes^ into white communities also' should. be ; pjir4llqt|:dy!15y rhoveS Tif' Wnities-tijwSrd Negro groupings! Dr. Spike, now heading a new University of Chicago Divinity School program to train minis ters for social involvement, also has stressed the need for new attacks on "the more subtle and pervasive forms” of discrimination. “The changes that need to take place,” he said, “in volve both white and black. White and black people must work at some of these tasks together, and I think some separately, but when separately, it must not just be the Negro community that is expected to shape up to some implied standard of achievement, falsely imagined to exist already in the white community.” Within the churches, the “real meaning” of the civil rights effort and the role of religion in the movement has been under continuing dis cussion. One such examination was at Victoria, Tex., last Fall, where a Protestant pastor, Ca tholic priest and a rabbi took part in a panel' presentation at the state convention of the NAACP. The Rev. Mac N. Turnage, a Presbyterian, cited the deep anxieties in many people spurred by the civil rights movement. For Christians, he said, this can have a healthy effect, stimulating those “who have grown too comfortable, to re-examine their positions and regain their sense of mission which was the motivating force of the church in the early days." “THE CIVIL rights movement has re-awakened the church,” the pastor continued. “It may re store democracy to America and Christianity to the church.” In this regard, it appears today that if the Churches “came late” to the racial justice drive — as many concede — they have come to stay. Bishop Shannon To College Unit MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Famous Brands Rentals Service Gibson Guitars Gretsch Guitars Standel Amps Conn&Oids Band Instruments Ludwig Slingerland Premier Drums DEKALB MUSICIANS SUPPLY CO. 422 E. HOWARD AVENUE DECATUR, GA. DR 3 4305 DR 3-1386 Phone 522 - 6500 PHILADELPHIA (NC)— Bis hop James P. Shannon, presi dent of the College of St. Thom as, St. Paul, Minn., was named chairman of the Association of American Colleges at the orga nization’s annual convention here. The 44-year-old educator is the first bishop to head the as sociation of 848 public and pri vate liberal arts colleges. Four priests, all presidents of Cath olic colleges, have held the post in the past, however. Bishop Shannon was appoint ed president of St, Thomas in 1956 and has been a member of the board of directors of the As sociation of American Colleges since 1963. He is the 55th head of the association and re places Rosemary Park, presi dent of Barnard College. MR. AND MRS. Paul Train a, who will speak at the Liturgy Con gress, with their family. IN CHARLOTTE, NX. To Take Liturgy Congress Roles UNIVERSITY CRITICIZED St. John Administration Hit By Students, Teachers SEVEN representatives of the archdiocese of Atlanta will take roles in the program of the Li turgy Congress - Southeastern U.S. to take place January 27- 29 in Charlotte, N.C. In addi tion to Archbishop Hallinan, an Abbot, three priests and a hus band and wife will play princi pal roles in the undertaking. Archbishop Hallinan will be the principal celebrant of the Mass at noon On Saturday. Along with the archbishop, the other bishops and abbots of the south east will concelebrate the clos ing Mass of the Congress. Like the other events of the program, this Mass will take place on Ovens Auditorium, which seats twenty-five hundred persons. Archbishop Hallinan will preach the homily at the Mass. Since his will be the final words of the conference, it was con sidered appropriate that his homily should relate the litur gical life of the Christian people to their apostolate in the world. One of the concelebrants at this same Mass will be Dom Au gustine Moore, O.C.S.O., Abbot of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, Conyers, Ga. Father Ellis DePriest, S.M., pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in Marietta will be a speaker on,, a panel Friday afternoon, | January ^28. The Friday after noon session will examine and discuss the important relation ship of liturgy and music. Fa ther DePriest’s experience as a professor of liturgy and a mu sician, as well as his pastoral work, equip him well to carry out this assignment. The Friday panel discussion will aim at the maximum participation on the part of those in attendance in order to make this amostprac- tical experience for the priests and laity, especially those who work with choirs, organists and song-leaders. The same approach of maxi mum audience participation will be followed in the Saturday morning session on Liturgy and the teaching of religion. This panel discussion will explore the many aspects of religious educaton, for children as well as adults, insofar as they are related to the liturgy. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Trains of Immacu late Heart of Mary parish will take part in this panel. Their approach will be the relation ship between the liturgy and religious training of children JERUSALEM, Israel (NC)-- Israeli President Zalman Sha- zar praised the work of the Vatican council in his yearly message of greeting to the Christian communities of his nation. “Out of this assemblage rep resenting more than half of modem Christendom,’’ he said, “came the moral courage to bridge long-existent breaches, to heal ancient ills, to seek new human relationships with other faiths, both Christian and non-Charistian.” Melkite - rite Archbishop Georges Hakim of Acre re sponded for the group of 16 Christian leaders who visited President Shazar at his official residence. He said “it now devolves upon us to begin the work of implementing our deci sions with respect both to our Christian brethren and our Jew ish and Moslem brethren.” in the home. Also included in this panel are two nuns and an other layman. Another participant in the Charlotte program is Father Leonard F.X. Mayhew, pastor of Holy Cross parish, who has served as the secretary of the Liturgy Congress. Father May hew will be the celebrant of the Bible Service following the opening session and keynote address on Thursday evening. The theme of the Bible Service will be "The Covenant — God’s Way with Man.” The Friday evening program will also close with a Bible Service, celebrated by Father Eugene Walsh, of St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore, Md. Father Walsh will preach on an ecumenical theme, “Unity — Our Fidelity To God’s Word.” Father Conald Foust, assis tant pastor Of Sacred Heart parish, willgive one of themain addresses of the Congress on a theological theme important for the understanding of the liturgy. Father Fbust’s subject will be “The Sacramental Priest-Life of the People of God.” The aim of Father Foust’s address will be to trace the priestly charac ter of all Christian people in their participation in the Sacra ments, especially the Holy Eu- t char 1st. WASHINGTON — A U. S. Supreme Court decision against racial segregation in a Macon, Ga., park touched off an argu ment among its members about the ruling's implications for church - related schools and other private institutions. Justice William 0. Douglas, who wrote the court’s majority opinion, said there was nothing in the ruling to challenge the denominational character of church-related education. But Justice John M. Harlan, in a dissent in which Justice Potter Stewart jointed, said the decision “at least in logic, jeo pardizes the existence of de- PRESIDENT. SHAZAR said of the Vatican council activities: “Indeed, after intense spirit ual struggle it was resolved to call for the uprooting of old ac cusations drenched with inno cent blood and to lay new roads leading to mankind’s libera tion from the diseases of hat red and narrowness of spirit.’’ He continued: “During recent years significant assemblies in other churches, too, have call ed for battle against the relig ious persecution and racial hat red which once again poison hu man life in many parts of the globe. “The Jewish people, one of the chief victims of such savage incitement, is particularly sen sitive to the great educational value of all these humane en deavors. It is our hope that their enlightened intentions will most speedily be translated into the practical language of good deeds.” WASHINGTON (NC)_Stu- dents and professors from St. John’s University strongly cri- ticizied its administration at a rally at American University, a Methodist institution here. Tom Riley, a junior at the Vincentian Fathers’ institution in Jamaica, N.Y., and chairman of a group called Students Unit ed for Academic Freedom, charged that he has been “vic timized in many ways” by the administration. Riley said the university re fused to allow political organi zations on the Jamaica and Brooklyn campuses, until stu dents were permitted this year to form chapters of the Young Democrats, the Young Republi cans and Young Americans for Freedom. But requests to form a chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) are still being turned down, he said. VATICAN CrTY—Archbishop Michael Ramsey ofCanterbury, Primate of All England and leader of the worldwide Angli can Communion, will visit Pope Paul VI on March 23. Archbishop Ramsey will come to Vatican City in his capacity as head of the Lambeth Con ference of Anglican bishops. Archbishop Ramsey’s prede cessor in the Canterbury See, the late Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher, visited Pope John XXIII here in 1960. It was the first meeting between a primate of nominationally restricted schools while making of every college entrance rejection letter a potential 14th Amend ment question.” The case involves a park in Macon, Ga., left to the city in 1911 by the late U.S. Sen. Augustus 0. Bacon. His will provided that the park be used for white people only. The city kept the park se gregated for a number of years but eventually let Negroes use it, on the grounds that the park was a public facility which it could not constitutionally ma nage on a segregated basis. Thereupon members of the park’s board of managers (pro vided for in the will) brought suit asking that the city be re moved as trustee and new trus tees be named. Several Negroes entered the case as intervenors, and eventually the city resigned as trustee. The Supreme Court of Georgia accepted the resig nation and appointed new trus tees. Archbishop To Preach In Miami BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (NC) —Archbishop Egidio VagnozzJ, Apostolic Delegate in the United States, will formally dedicate a major seminary in the Miami diocese, first in the southeast, on Jan. 25. Bishop Coleman F, Carroll of Miami will offer a Solemn Pon tifical Mass at the chapel of the new St. Vincent de Paul Semi nary and Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan of Atlanta will preach. The nine-building complex opened in 1963 under the di rection of the Vincentian Fath ers. It accepts candidates for the priesthood from dioceses in the southeastern United States and in the Caribbean area. STUDENT publications "con sistently and constantly” are censored, he said, adding that items eliminated have included ads for No - Doz, a non - prescription stimulant. Riley said an article in the honors’ program newsletter that was critical of the admini stration was “personally yank ed and rewritten” by an ad ministration official. It was changed from criticism to praise, he alleged. James Shields, an assistant professor of English, said the university is trying “to crush all dissent.” Many professors, he added, have told their classes that they are still teach ing only because the university forced them to be threatening “prompt and appropriate ac tion” against strike supporters. SHIELDS said he thinks the university’s current troubles England and a pope since the Reformation. THE VATICAN Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity said in announcing the arch bishop’s visit that last Novem ber he had "expressed his de sire to visit the Holy Father.” According to the secretariat, the following will accompany the Anglican prelate: Former Bishop Ralph Dean of Cariboo, B.C., now executive officer of the Anglican Com munion residing in London. : 'p fft i Bishop J, R. H. Moorman of Ripon, England, an observer at the ecumenical council. CANON JOHN Satterthwaite, general secretary of the Church of England council on foreign relations. The Rev. J. N. D, Kelly, prin cipal of St. Edmund’s Hall, Ox ford, and chairman of the arch bishop’s commission on Roman Catholic relations in England and Wales. The Rev. John Andrew, the archbishop’s domestic chaplain. CANON JOHN Findlow, who has been serving as the arch bishop’s representative at the Vatican. Archbishop Ramsey and his party are expected to arrive in Rome on March 22 and leave the day following his audience with the Pope. are “the dying gasp of 19th- century Irish Catholicism” in America. Dr. William McBrien, former associate professor of English and director of the undergrad uate Honors Program, said the only reason he could see for his firing was his support of a stu dent who “wears his hair long.” He said the student is “one of the top two or three honors students.” Dr. McBrien accused the ad ministration of having a “ma- chanistic” view of education. “WE’VE PATTERNED our selves after the corporation,” he said, "and I think we’ve let the analogy take over too much.” The rally was held in Ameri can University’s Spiritual Life Center at the invitation of the university’s student body presi- dnet, Gary Walker. Members of the St. John’s de legation said they had sought to hold the event at Trinity Coll ege here, a liberal arts college for women operated by the Sis ters of Notre Dame de Namur, but permission was denied. At Trinity, a spokesman said the college had been contacted by telephone by a representa tive of the St. John’s delega tion. It was first understood the .delegationwanted a facility in which to hold a conference with Congressmen and their assis tants. But then it became clear a rally to seek student support for the St. John's strikers was intended and permission was denied. “TRINITY believes whole heartedly in exposing contro versial issues on campus, but only when the facts can be de termined and both sides are fairly represented,” a college spokesman said in explanation of the denial. BILL DOWNS SAFE & LOCK CO. 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