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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 Full-tuition scholarship to Boston memory there has never been a Some of us, for instance, are College. 2. Combination Borg Warner Corporation, Notre Dame, and National Merit f ull-tuition scholarship to Notre Dame University. 3. A $250. award - from the Kiwanis Club of Sandy Springs for academic achievement. "ARMY-NAVY SURPLUS YOUR BEST BUY” Camping- Hunting -Fishing Supplies OLD SARGE SURPLUS 5327 BUFORD HIGH.WAY DORAVILLE, GA. 451-3377 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 5TAN’§ RADIO & TV REPA.m foreign car radios - Stereos, tape recorders & Hi-Fi. 325 Pharr Rd., N.E. 261-4789 ('Formerly with Radio Hosp. ) 4. The Archbishop’s Award for Academic Excellence. Your attention to this correction would be greatly appreciated. Miss Donna Dlugos Atlanta 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. Forgive me if I am wrong but in many instances I have the (jUo/l6 them a JUoto/i Relax in the distinctive elegance of a resort atmosphere. Enjoy motor hotel conven ience combined with a new idea in leisure. Try our championship tennis courts. Im prove your game on the beautiful 18-hole golf course of one of Atlanta’s finest country clubs. Take a swim in the olympic-size pool. Putt a few on our lighted green. 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