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6 Georgia bulletin, Thursday, may 30,1968
Letters To The Editor
EDITOR:
The recent interview with Leo
Zuber, former book review editor
of The Bulletin, was appreciated
by another who preceeded him in
that role. He was a valued
contributor to the section which
I edited for The Bulletin from
1944 to 1960. He took over the
editorship when I resigned to
accept a position with Georgia
State College Library in 1960.
The Bulletin noted that transition
in its Oct. 1, 1960 issue. Copy of
that article is enclosed.
I recall those pietistic books
he mentions and the
unwholesome mentality that they
fostered. Flannery O’Connor,
who reviewed books for The
Bulletin during my editorship,
and Mr. Zuber contributed
greatly to raising the quality of
the book section and to
improving readers’ tastes. Pietism
and sentimentality were strictly
taboo with her. We all profited
from our correspondence with
her and from reading her splendid
reviews.
I share Mr. Zuber’s enthusiasm
for the lay diaconate, his broad
view of the layman’s and the
modern nun’s role in the world,
and his opinion of the trend away
from what he calls “the Catholic
ghetto school.”
The position that I accepted
at Georgia State College Library
in 1960 led to my becoming
librarian the following year here
at Florida Institute of
Technology in Melbourne,
Florida, where I have had the
magnificent opportunity these
past seven years to broaden my
view in company with students,
faculty, and administrators of
many persuasions, many
nationalities, and many creeds.
Like many others, I have escaped
from the ghetto complex and the
pietistic mentality of the 40s and
50s into a vastly more satisfying
and stimulating world.
Mrs. Eileen Hall
Melbourne, Fla.
EDITOR:
All Catholics should make an
attempt to take advantage of the
Day of Human Awareness,
sponsored by the Department of
Catholic Social Services next
Tuesday. 1 feel certain that we
will be the beneficiaries in that
our attitude might be turned
“upside down.”
No matter how many
government and business projects
are initiated for the benefit of the
poor (thereby for all), many of us
must change our thinking. Once
we have accomplished this,
demonstrations will no longer be
necessary. Then, we will seek that
employers pay Negro employees
wages equal to a white man’s pay.
And, we will remind some of our
officials and representatives that
we want our tax dollars used on
the needy, not, for example, on a
100 million dollar building for
the senators.
We will become active and
demand that poverty programs
are countiued and administered
properly so that the needy are
the only recipients and the funds
used to make every American a
productive and proud citizen.
We will express our thoughts
without beligerence to our
neighbors, friends and co-workers
in an attempt to sway some-ones
thinking a bit.
Perfect guides in this costless impression that much of the time when the church did not
but most beneficial project is material is written by spiritually plead for a greater love and more
Ralph McGill’s column, previous immature folks who, being newly assistance for the poor, at home
and current series in the Georgia awakened to the fact that there is and abroad, for more vocations,
Bulletin, the series on the two more to the church than they had greater apostolic effort on the
Atlanta’s in the Journal and heretofore s u s p e c t e d,part of the laymen, for concern
Constitution and, also, the immediately conclude that on the part of the layman for
current issue of Readers’ Digest, everyone else has been asleep too substantial and dignified financial
and take to their soapboxes to support of the' church and
Wilma Latson convince us that everything as we schools, and for better
Forest Park have known it or done it in the attendance and devotion at Mass.
past must be changed. For most of us it was not
EDITOR - This attitude can be summed meaningless and monotonous just
up by a remark made by Mr. because we followed the English
This letter is in reference to Shields during his talk. He said, translation silently even though
the last edition of the Georgia “It used to be easy to be a we love the newer manner of
Bulletin in which you covered the Catholic.” I ask, ”By whose praying aloud together. If there
high school graduations and standards, Mr. Shields?” Those of has been a shortage of lay ears
featured the top students of each us who have loved and tried to who heard, let’s at least put the
graduating class. My brother, live our Faith for a half century, blame where it belongs. Maybe,
Thomas Paul Dlugos, St. Pius X more or less, have not always we should be thankful that so
High School, was one of these found it to be easy. I could write many good priests' and religious
students; however, there was an pages about the difficulties have survived the past
omission in the coverage of his encountered by my parents and indifference of laymen,
academic awards that were not by our generation as parents in Change, of course, can be a
omitted for the other students. I striving to be go^id Catholics but very fine thing. When it is good,
don’t know the reason for this we were not taught that it would necessary - and changeable - let’s
omission, but both my parents be easy. I m more inclined to gg( Qn with it, being sufficiently
and I would appreciate and think that it is today’s “modern cautious not to throw out the
expect a correction in the future Catholics who expect it to sbe proverbial baby with the
edition. easier than it is. bathwater. However, going into
Some of us are tired of reverse and rushing to the
These are the following hearing the church blamed for opposite extreme is not the
scholarships and awards my not allowing the layman to answer either,
brother has merited: 1. participate before. In my
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College.
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weary of seeing so much space
allotted to the juvenile rantings
of columnists like John Cogley
who without proper restraint and
charity opposes everything from
the natural law to the
canonization of saints. “Methinks
he doth protest too much.”
Sometimes, 1 get awfully
scared that Catholics might come
to believe that we will find the
Kingdom of God if we just sing
loud enough and pray loud
enough and become involved
enough in worthy external
activities, forgetting to put
sufficient emphasis on the need
for personal prayer, meditation
and inner confrontation in
keeping with the advice of Our
Lord to seek first the Kingdom of
God, which He said lies within us
and then add all these other
things.
Mr. Shields commended
highly the efforts and dedication
of the editor who has the job of
editing the Bulletin with very
little help. Is this perhaps too
much to expect of one man and
possibly one reason why the
Bulletin is apparently lacking
appeal to as many people of the
diocese as is hoped for?
Mrs. R. Mussell
Decatur
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Your attention to this
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EDITOR:
. The recent visit of Paul
Shields to our parish to invite
suggestions and constructive
criticism of the Georgia Bulletin
in a spirit of loving concern was a
gesture which should surely be
appreciated.
I am sure that most of us
would rather continue to support
the paper and hope for its growth
and development than to cancel
our subscription as I have often
felt tempted to do as I find
myself tucking issues out of sight
lest my growing children might
read them to their detriment and
confusion.
It seems to me that too much
space is devoted to highly
controversial issues (or worse
still, reports of outright attacks
even by priests, against defined
doctrine such as the infallibility
of the church) without any note
as to what or why the church
teaches the opposing view.
The casual reader could easily
conclude that this is a new
approach and that such matters
are open to debate or revision.
Some of these subjects might be
suitable material for adult
discussion panels, but are of little
value in a diocesan paper.
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