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PAGE 7—The Georgia Bulletin, July 24,1980
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for the Handicapped in Arnheim,
Netherlands. The contestants, who
depend mostly on wheelchairs for
mobility, compete in table tennis,
swimming, fencing, high jump, long
jump and wheelchair races.
ELECT
A REAL LEADER
Manuel Maloof has been long
recognized as an advocate of
DeKalb citizens. A strong believer
in family and community, he
successfully advocated an increase
in the Homestead Exemption,
successfully fought an increase in
the sales tax, advocated funding for
the DeKalb Council on aging and
for building the Senior Citizens
Center. He is on record as opposing
the widening of roads which will
destroy established communities.
Manuel Maloof attended the Immaculate Conception Convent
School and Atlanta’s Boys Tech. A Veteran of World War II, he has
been married 3 5 years and has eight children and seven
grandchildren. A district commissioner from 1974 to 1978, he has
also served on numerous county study committees and has guest
lectured on politics at local schools and universities.
MANUEL MALOOF
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Human Milk Of Kindness
BY ANTOINETTE BOSCO
NC NEWS SERVICE
Once in a while, a call for help goes
out from a hospital to a very special
class of people - nursing mothers. The
call is urgent. For this remarkable food
- human milk - is needed by an infant
who can survive on no substitute. The
milk, so perfectly designed by the
Creator to nourish babies, protect them
from certain infections and prevent
digestive problems, must be found, and
quickly.
About a year ago, several babies in
my part of New York state desperately
needed mothers’ milk at the same time.
Their own mothers were unable to
provide it, so hospitals literally had to
go begging for the milk. Fortunately,
enough mothers responded and the
babies were saved.
To prevent such emergencies in the
future, North Shore University Hospital
in Manhasset, N.Y., has set up a
breast-milk bank. By the end of its first
year, 493 women had registered as
donors and 100 had actually
contributed milk, supplying 10,000
ounces to feed 20 infants. The
procedure is efficient and easy. The
donors place their milk in bottles
provided by the bank, freeze it in their
refrigerators, then bring it to one of 26
deposit points.
In June, the idea of establishing
banks for human milk received a
tremendous boost from Gov. Hugh
Carey of New York, a widowed Catholic
father of 12 (two deceased). He signed a
bill proclaiming it state policy that
human-breast milk is the preferred food
for infants. The measure authorizes the
state health department to set standards
for donors and for the collection and
storage of the milk.
As a mother who believed enough in
nursing to buck bottle feeding 30 years
ago, this recognition that nature’s way
(or God’s way, as I prefer to put it) is
best, gives me a lot of satisfaction.
In 1950, when I decided to nurse my
first baby, the hospital didn’t like my
decision at all. I was the only new
mother in the maternity section who
was nursing. The nurses found it an
inconvenience to have one baby “off
schedule.” They tried to discourage me
with every possible argument, even
saying I was setting myself up to “smell
like a cheese factory.”
A few years later, a teacher in a
creative-writing course advised me to
write an article on a subject I knew
something about. I was then nursing my
second child and I responded flippantly,
“All I know is how it feels to nurse a
baby!”
He pondered that one and decided
the topic was so different that it just
might sell. I wrote my first article then,
titled “How It Feels to Nurse a Baby,”
and sent it off unsolicited to Baby Talk
magazine. A few weeks later, I pocketed
a check. My teacher was right. The
testimony of a 24-year old mother,
bucking the bottle trend and placing
value on God’s magnificently designed
system for nurturing newborns, was
unusual enough to attract attention and
get published.
It is nice to know that the
anti-breast-feeding days have passed,
thanks to mothers themselves,
better-trained health professionals and
the efforts of groups such as the La
Leche League and natural-childbirth
organizations. In this Year of the
Family, wouldn’t it be wonderful if
communities everywhere followed New
York’s lead and established breast-milk
banks? That would be a definite and
honest pro-family move.
MIAMI UNREST
Archdiocese Responds
MIAMI (NC) - Monthly
meetings with leading
black Catholic laymen in
Dade County were
inaugurated by
Archbishop Edward A.
McCarthy of Miami amid
new unrest which followed
civil disorders in mid-May.
Violence returned to
Miami’s black ghetto,
Liberty City, the week of
July 13 as youths milled in
the streets and clashed
with police. Gunfire
erupted, the area was
placed under curfew and
the National Guard was
activated.
The archdiocese’s
meetings are meant to
enable the church to
address itself better to the
needs of black Catholics in
south Florida and to
promote actively Christian
attitudes among Catholics
and others toward their
black fellow Christians,
the archbishop said.
According to Msgr.
Bryan Walsh, Miami
archdiocesan director of
Catholic Charities,
short-range priorities set
by the group include the
promotion of police
sensitivity programs,
possibly by working
through the Catholic Guild
of Police and Firemen; the
observance of black
history month (February)
in archdiocesan parishes
and schools to point up
the significant
contributions made by
black people; and the
establishment of ongoing
sensitivity training
programs for priests,
Religious, seminarians and
laymen in the archdiocese.
Members of the newly
formed task force chaired
by the archbishop include
legislators, physicians,
business executives and
other professionals.
The group also
advocates tri-ethnic
workshops for black,
Hispanic and white youths
featuring lectures by
qualified persons. The goal
is to promote ethnic and
cultural understanding in
order that participants
become better advocates
of Christian values in the
various schools they
attend.
“We must first put our
own house in order,”
Msgr. Walsh said. “Far too
many Catholics neglect
their values ... I think we
have a lot of educational
work to do. The questions
of justice and racism are
serious things and
educational and material
change must be tackled.
There is a need for us to
provide a very positive
affirmation for our black
Catholics and the
leadership they
undoubtedly exercise in
the community,” Msgr.
Walsh said.
White House Conferences: A Divided Family
BY STEPHENIE OVERMAN
WASHINGTON (NC) -
Tactics as much as topics
divided the White House
Conference on Families.
To fight or not to fight; to
expose major rifts or to
present the image of one
big happy family - those
were the questions.
Chairman Jim Guy
Tucker repeatedly called
on delegates at
conferences in Baltimore,
Minneapolis and Los
Angeles to first find areas
o f, , agreement before
tackling the divisive areas.
“Pro-family” coalition
with which they could not
agree.
Now, with the
conclusion of the state,
regional and finally
national meetings,
recommendations will go
to a national task force
which will meet in
Washington Aug. 19-22.
The task force report
then goes to President
Carter and to Congress and
an implementation period
is set to begin in
September.
The Baltimore
conference sends a list of
57 resolutions on families
to the task force, from a
parents and
b e tween
schools.
“Americans are telling
us that they share deep
and common concerns
about the future of their
families. They’re worried
about the same things -
about inflation and
unemployment, taking
care of older family
members, getting leave
from their jobs when it’s
needed to take care of sick
children, and about
addiction to drugs and
alcohol,” chairman Tucker
said after the first two
conferences showed
similar results.
“Americans are telling us that they share deep and common concerns
about the future of their families. They’re worried about the same things -
about inflation and unemployment, taking care of older family members,
getting leave from their jobs when it’s needed to take care of sick children,
and about addiction to drugs and alcohol.”
members in turn
demanded a single,
traditional definition of
family and focused on the
most explosive issues --
abortion, ERA and
homosexual rights.
Many pro-family
conservatives labeled the
White House Conference
“stacked” and “rigged”
and pro-family protests
were held at each of the
three national meetings. In
Baltimore and Minneapolis
they walked out; in Los
Angeles they tore up their
ballots.
The U.S. Catholic
Conference and the
National Conference of
Catholic Charities first
joined the Coalition for
the White House
Conference on Families, a
broad-based coalition
trying to put aside
controversial single issues
to work on a wide range of
family concerns.
But the two Catholic
organizations left the
coalition following the
Minneapolis conference
after accusing the coalition
of endorsing specific issues
total of 60. The
Minneapolis meeting
passed 50 of its 55
resolutions and the Los
Angeles conference
accepted 56 of 57
recommendations.
Each conference set
different priorities but
none ranked abortion, the
ERA or homosexual rights
as top recommendations.
Los Angeles gave abortion
the lowest of its 56
rankings and Baltimore
passed a combination
abortion-ERA-homosexual
rights resolution by only
one vote.
Both Baltimore and
Minneapolis gave high
ratings to programs for
alcohol and drug abuse
treatment and support
services for families with
disabled members. Los
Angeles also supported aid
for families with
handicapped members and
called for a partnership
Only in Minneapolis
did the pro-family
delegates get a traditional
family definition, which
ex eluded homosexual
relationships. But
pro-family delegates lost
their bid to pass
recommendations
opposing the ERA and
calling for a Human Life
Amendment.
OUTCOME “POSITIVE
Overall, Catholic
Committee chairman Msgr.
Francis J. Lally, USCC
secretary for Domestic
Social Development, said
he felt “positive” about
the outcome of the
conferences.
‘‘A great many
resolutions are thoroughly
supportive of our own
Catholic social teachings.
We were disappointed in
some obvious areas that
were offensive to our
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traditional ideas of family
-- such as gay family
lifestyle, abortion and the
payment for abortions,
sterilization and
contraception.”
Msgr. Lally said he
expected the task force to
make a careful analysis
based on the recommend
ations and “I don’t expect
any surprises.”
The national meetings
drew their recommend
ations from the state level.
A1 a baiii a and Indiana
chose not to participate in
the process.
Controversy arose over
the delegate selection
procedure. Although
White House Conference
officials said the process
was designed to provide
balanced representation,
pro-family conservatives
said the conbination peer
election-governor
appointment procedure
was stacked with liberal
social welfare profession
als.
Each of the three
conferences heard a White
House official support the
strength of families.
President Carter opened
the first conference, in
Baltimore, telling 750
delegates “families are
based on more than blood.
They are a kinship of
shared experiences, shared
dreams, shared joys and
sorrows. ”
Carter said he would do
all he could “to ensure
that your work does not
end as a report on shelves
in Washington” and said a
unique feature of the
conference was its
follow-up period.
He noted that he had
called for the conference
four years ago “because I
was deeply concerned that
official America had lost
touch with family
America.
GOVERNMENT ROLE
The amount of
government involvement
in family life came up
repeatedly as pro-family
delegates urged less
government intervention
and the majority of
delegates voted for
programs which often
relied on government
money.
The idea of requiring
statements of all proposed
federal programs to
determine their impact on
families was widely
endorsed at the
conferences and the
Minneapolis delegates gave
a family impact statement
its highest endorsement.
Patricia Harris,
secretary of Health and
Human Services, told
delegates that the United
States “cannot afford to
sustain a public debate -
in Congress, in politics or
in the media - which is
driven by an obsession
with unconnected, single
issues.
“I would say that a
monomaniacal approach
to general policy issues is
to be deplored.”
Mrs. Harris had urged
the delegates to focus on
fundamental concerns of
American families. These
issues, she said, include
health care for all citizens,
especially the poor, the
young and elderly;
affordable child care for
working mothers; decent
housing; better education;
jobs and security.
Many delegates at the
three conferences agreed
that those issues were
important and they gave
them a large percentage of
votes.
However, Connie
Marshner, chairwoman of
the Pro-Family Coalition,
accused the White House
conference of having a
“hidden agenda” which
precluded discussion of a
definition of family,
parental rights,
h omosexuality and
abortion ~ issues her group
views as most critical
Mrs. Marshner said,
“families are strong when
they have a function to
perform” and urged less
government intervension
in family life. “I reject the
idea of a partnership
between government and
parents” in child raising,
she said.
Msgr. Lally noted,
“contrary to what some
say, we (the Catholic
Committee) do not believe
the Conference was rigged
or patterned in advance.
There was nothing of this
‘hidden agenda.’ Nothing
we saw supported that.”
He added that he
believed Catholic delegates
made a positive
contribution to the
conference, saying they
were “alert and vocal”
even if they were not
always e f fee t ive in
influencing conference
recommendations.
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