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$orti) Carolina Catfjolic Edition of Our Sunday Visitor Subscription $4.00 Copy 10c Volume LIV July 25, 1965 No. 13 RALEIGH, N.C. P O. Box 9503 LBJ to Congress Legislation Asked For Teacher Corps Washington — (NC) — Presi dent Johnson sent a three-pronged ‘‘teachings profession” bill to Con gress which embodies proposals he first announced to the National Ed ucation Association’s convention July 2. The legislation proposed by the President would: • Create a national teachers corps to serve in city slums and areas of rural poverty under the UN Asked to End Forced Marriages Geneva, Switzerland — (NC) — A representative of St. Joan’s In ternational Alliance, a Catholic women’s organization, has told delegates at the United Nations Economic and Social Council that something must be done to end the practice of forced marriages and easy divorces. In many countries, said Isabelle Archinard, the dowry system per petuates forced marriages even where they have been legally for hidden. In other countries, men still purchase wives and can di vorce them by a simple declara tion before a notary. Another speaker, Mrs. Graber Dovemay, said on behalf of the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations that full civil and ; political freedom for women can be based only on education. She **id it would be senseless to give women a larger role in the socie ties of some countries if women we not literate and educated to the needs of society. "This is particularly true where eerious problems—the population explosion, for instance—are con *wned,” she said. “If education of the women tends to develop her wnse of responsibility, it must be Ktoembered that it is with her husband—as the conclusion of a dWogue between adults—that she mil assume this responsibility, es £**•*% when questions relating to family affairs or to the educa of the children are con cerned.” direction and control of local school districts. • Establish a program of fellow ships to prepare students for teaching careers and to help expe rienced teachers become better qualified. • Allow federal aid to institu tions of higher learning for the betterment of teacher education programs. One objective of the bill is to assist teachers, especially Negroes, who are displaced by school inte gration. During the first of the three years of operation provided for by the bill, the national teachers corps would recruit about 6,000 teachers, who would serve in local communities at the request of the local districts. “They will be local, not federal, employes,” Mr. John son said. The bill specifically prohibits any federal interference in the ad ministration of local school sys tems. The fellowships included in the bill would be awarded for up to two years of graduate study with major emphasis on the fields of elementary and secondary educa tion. In addition to the fellow ships, an allowance of $2,500 would be paid to the institution at which each fellowship holder is studying. The U.S. Commissioner of Edu cation would also be permitted to pay part of the cost of improving graduate and undergraduate teacher training programs. AID Official: End of U.S. Aid Program To Mexico Not Retaliatory Washington — (NC) — Cutting off shipments of free surplus foods to Mexico—in which the distribu tion program organized through the American Catholic Relief or ganization played the largest role — was neither retaliatory nor abrupt, according to government sources here. A spokesman for the Agency for International Development said the termination of Food for Peace shipments to Mexico was mutually agreed on by the Mexican and American governments because Mexico is now producing grain surpluses at the same time that U.S. surpluses are being depleted. He denied publishing reports to the effect that the U.S. program was stopped in retaliation against Mexico’s selling grain to Commu nist China. Rather, he said, it was in line with procedures being fol lowed in other countries whose production has come into line With domestic needs, such as Italy. WHILE FOOD shipments were cut off with the start of the new fiscal year on July 1, there are enough American supplies on hand to continue distribution to the needy until early September. The aid official acknowledged that Services of Economic Volunteer Aides (SAVE), the Mexican Cath olic organization which has dis tributed the U.S. foods in behalf of Catholic Relief Services-Nation al Catholic Welfare Conference, will be hardest hit by the cut-off. (SAVE through its 32,000 volun teer workers has been distributing some 110 million pounds of U.S. government foodstuffs annually.) He noted that the Mexican gov ernment in distributing its own surpluses does not intend to work through church-related voluntary agencies. (In New York, an official of Catholic Relief Services said his agency still is hoping for govern ment reconsideration, so that the aid program can be “phased out” over a longer period. He said that not only will the CRS pro grams for supplementing the di ets of needy children be hard hit, but so too will economic aid proj ects such as irrigation programs to make arid valleys productive, in which the workers are paid part of their wages in surplus U.S. foods.) AT THE SAME time, the U.S. official charged that SAVE lead ers in Mexico City have seized on the ending of the program to issue exaggerated statements which are nothing less than “malicious anti U.S. propaganda.” The AID spokesman denied that the Mexican grain surpluses are simply a temporary phenomenon. Many Questions WCC Leader Comments On Talks with Vatican Geneva, Switzerland — (NC) — Dr. Willem Visser ’t Hooft, gen eral secretary of the World Coun cil of Churches, said here that the special commission created by the WCC and the Vatican Secretariat for promoting Christian Unity has so many questions to discuss that it may schedule more frequent meetings. At the same time he emphasized that the World Council, since it is not itself a church, would not dis cuss matters of church doctrine with the Catholic representatives. DOCTRINAL MATTERS, said Dr. Visser ’t Hooft, should be left to individual churches. He noted that the Unity Secretariat has al ready made plans to meet with representatives of the Lutheran World Federation. St. Vincent's Mass Schedule Announced Sunday Masses at St. Vincent’s Church, Charlottle, will be offered at 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon. Formerly a mission of St. Ann s, the newest parish in the Diocese comprises the southwestern part of Mecklenburg County, including the Charlotte residential areas of Laurelwood, Fair Meadows, Bever ly Woods, Sharon Colony, Spring Valley, Huntingtowne Farms, Star CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS SET RETREAT AT BELMONT, JULY 30 The annual retreat of the North Carolina Catholic Daughters, usually held mi the Labor Day weekend at Sacred Heart Junior College will be held this year the weekend of July SO. Mrs. John Shields, state regent, has notified all the courts. All reservations should be made by writing directly to Mother Mary James, Sacred Heart Junior College, Belmont, N.C. j Father Richard Wahl of Hie Oratorian Fathers, Rock Hill, 8- C.( will be the retreat for the weekend which will begin oa Friday at 5:30 p.m. and close on Sunday afternoon. mount,, Montclaire, and Parkstone. Prior to the erection of the new parish, St. Ann’s had been the largest parish in the Diocese with some 2,900 members. Ap proximately 1300 of these will be members of St. Vincent’s. Father James Noonan began his new pastorate on July 15. A na tive of Waterbury, Conn., he has served the Church in North Caro lina for twenty-two years, most re cently at St. Paul’s Church, New Bern. St. Vincent’s, which is located on Old Reid Road, was built under the direction of Monsignor Mi chael Begley four years ago. Since then the area has witnessed the most rapid expansion in the vicin ity of Charlotte. St. Ann’s School, which last year enrolled 726 children from kinder garten through the eighth grade, will continue to serve the families in the new parish. Masses at St. Ann’s are now scheduled at 7:00, 8:15, 9:30, 10:45 and noon. He indicated that similar talks would be initiated between the Vatican and the Anglican commun ion after the close of the ecumen ical council. The Dutch-born church leader spoke at the dedication of the new Geneva headquarters of the WCC, an international body of Protes tant, Anglican and Orthodox churches. IT HAS BEEN reported that some WCC members are con cerned that the 14-member com mission formed with the Vatican would engage in doctrinal discus sions. Dr. Visser ’t Hooft appar ently alluded to this fear when he said the commission “can only deal with questions which fall within the competence of the WCC.” Three areas, he said, will be taken up by the commission. “The first is ecumenism. The second concerns problems on which we are at variance, such as religious freedom, baptism and rebaptism and mixed marriages. The third centers on the possibility of con crete collaboration, especially on problems of social and interna tional justice. “THESE QUESTIONS alone provide a wide scope for discus sion, and the need for more fre quent discussions already has been felt. A second meeting of the com mission probably will be held be fore the end of the year.” Dr. Visser’t Hooft observed that the World Council is neither a church nor a super-church, and thus is not competent to take up matters of doctrine. “Let us hope and not fear,” he said, “that other working groups will be set up for discussion be tween the Roman Catholic Church and the various major reformed and Protestant churches. Specific doctrinal issues can be debated in such groups.” Dr. Visser’t Hooft said the Vati can has agreed that a WCC observ er should attend meetings with in dividual churches. He said that Mexican wheat pro duction has been rising sharply, and because its granaries are over flowing, Mexico recently concluded a credit agreement to send 400, 000 tons to Egypt. Because wheat production is mainly on irrigated land, it is not reliant on the rain See End of Aid, page 2A Red Press Attacks Right Of Conscience Hong Kong — (NC) — Recent articles in the Red Chinese press have taken the line that the con science of the government deter mines the conscience of its peo ple. The Youth Daily, the official or gan of the Communist Youth Guard in Shanghai, featured an article recently on “the reaction ary aspects of conscience.” “We hear talk about such ideas as every person has a conscience,” said the article. “Some people are even afraid to offend their conscience by reveal ing that a friend, or relative, or teacher is opposed to socialism and class struggle . . . some even think that our enemies may have a con science.” All such thoughts are but the ef forts of “capitalists and landlords” to hide behind world “humanism” in their desire to play down the “essential contradiction between the deprived and the depriving classes,” said the article. “The la boring class must make this dis tinction clear even though the de priving class tries to blur it with the slogan, ‘we are all men and all have a conscience.’” The Youth Daily warned its readers to avoid the trap of con science. “A revolutionary must never hold conscience dear,” it said. “Capitalist members of the de priving class are still trying to restore the monarchy. We must not be beguiled by their talk of conscience and humanity, but res olutely hold to our proletarian po sition, and tear up the deceiving cloak of conscience.” Christmas Stamp to Have Religious Theme WASHINGTON — (NC) — A religious theme will be prominent on this year’s Christmas postage stamp for the first time in the four-year history of the special holiday stamps. The design for the red, green and yellow stamp is taken from a 1939 watercolor painting by Bos ton artist Lucille Gloria Chabot, showing a weathervane whose chief feature is the Archangel Ga briel blowing his horn. The paint ing of the weathervane, which was manufactured in 1840 by a Boston firm is now in the National Gal ery of Art here. Postmaster General John A. Gronouski’s decision on the de sign followed consultations with government lawyers to determine whether the design would be con stitutional.
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