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J. I Ll.ll MM 1 I rs Modi SIT it--Iff ft i i Enactment to Result In 'Thought SaysCard. Spellman New York. Millions of parents would be called upon to surrender freedom of mind and religion as a condition for sharing in the federal aid 3 (ft to education program suggested to President Ken SECTION TWO FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1961 nedy, Cardinal bpellman charged. To require such a condition, he said, is a "di rect violation of the liberties guaranteed by the By Student Grants First Amendment to the United States Constitu tion." The proposals challenged by Plans Halo raw ork the Archbishop of New York were made by a six-man task children regardless of their exercise of religion in the choice of a school.

force named by Kennedy. They call for a $9,300,000,000 four-year aid program. The entire "I cannot believe that Congress would discriminate againsl $5,800,000,000 allotted for ele Lutheran, Baptist, Catholic, oi parents Americans For rivate Collages all in the allocation of edu cational funds," he declared. mentary and secondary education would go to public schools. Private, nonprofit schools would share only on the college level in the funds provided by the program.

The task force proposals, he Patron of Modern Democracies charged, blatantly discriminate against children attending Church related schools, "de fc Albany, N. Y. The state board of regents, in an unprecedented plan to help private colleges meet rising urged New York to pay part of the tuition of students attending those institutions. Expected to be presented to the Legislature by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, the plan was explained to a conference of state legislative leaders Every Child Counts It is imperative in these priving them of freedom of mind and freedom of religion guaranteed by our country's Constitu times, he asserted, when Communism is fighting to enslave tion, whose First Amendment was adopted to protect the in by Dr.

James E. Allen, Jr. state education commissioner. and sacrifice long since This can be done by building aid low-interest loans and schol dividual person from govern' ment repression, the very danger implicit in the proposed program of the task force." arships, as well as a variety There are very few men who would not admire the courage and equanimity of St. Paul in this episode, but there are few willing to meet the conditions necessary to gain this strength of soul.

As the ma.i-made storm of today's world rages around us, we are in sore need of the virtues of St. Paul and his supernatural faith. The free democratic societies of today owe much to St. Paul, who, despite unimaginable obstacles, emblazoned the banner of Catholicism across the Roman empire, planting the roots for the modern democracies which are based upon the intrinsic dignity of man, made in the image and likeness of God, a truth which the Epistles of St. Paul expound in beautiful language.

The illustration above is the concluding scene of St. Paul the Apostle's last recorded voyage, in which he was being taken to Rome as a prisoner. He stands with his arms outstretched in thanksgiving to God for the safety of himself and 276 souls, whose lives God had spared along with his. The heroic stature of St. Paul shows forth most vividly in this encounter with the raging seas and the mass hysteria of men.

For 14 days the ship wallowed in the wild waters of the Adriatic Sea. Paul, the prisoner, was the calmest man on board. He encouraged the passengers and crew to trust in God and foretold that they would be cast away on a certain island but all would be saved. And so it turned out as shown above. $200 Yearly Grant The program will cost New York annually which will be paid out in $200 yearly grants to students at private col of other methods." The Driest pleaded for recog 5 1 ft iV Many students, he added, have picked Church related he suggested, be used to expand already existing private and public institutions.

"I do not think the answer to our problems in New York state," said the educator, "is in having the state take primacy in higher education and introduce all the curricula at all levels. "Rather, the answer is in helping the private institutions to make good on an investment nition of the right of parents and students to choose their leges. No funds will go to colleges and universities under graduate students or those enrolled in tax-supported colleges. the Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1952, the War Orphans' Edu Recipients must be New York colleges, and urged professions, businesses, and industry to support the educational programs of their own choice. NCWC Wire cational Assistance Act of 1956 and the National Defense Edu cation Act of 1958.

They were I ff pi all given direct grants and free dom of choice by the national government, and a number of Private School Aid Defended As Constitutional by Priest states have adopted the method. No Breach of Wall "It is a matter of record," said the Cardinal, "that pro grams of direct grants to stu i 4 7 .1 dents and children attending Church related schools do not breach the wall of separation of Church and State." Cardinal Spellman the world, "that our nation pro-vide every child with the teach' In discussing direct aid and residents attending institutions in the state. The additional funds received from students are expected to permit private colleges to expand. On the same day that the regents announced their proposal, Father James J. McGin-iey, S.J., president of Canisius College in Buffalo, called for tuition grants or supplements for all the private colleges recognized by the board of re-s gents.

"Let these tuition grants to "all private institutions," he urged, "equivalate the differ-- ence between $300 per year (or the tuition to be paid by students at tax-supported institutions) and the average cost in New York state of a total collegiate education calculated on a total cost basis." The Jesuit also called for a status quo in the proportion of public and private colleges. Private institutions of higher learning account for 60 per cent of the total and public institutions, 40 per cent. Instead of money being spent freedom of choice under the GI education bill, the President's ings necessary to develop his moral and intellectual abilities "seemed to voice the basic American tradition of co-operation of Church and State." Recalling that the S. Supreme Court in the Everson school bus case said that "neither a state nor a federal government can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another," he noted that frequently the point is raised whether participation of private education in federal aid is constitutional. Committee on Education Be 1961 Vatican Yearbook Shows Church's Growth Vatican City.

The Annuario Pontificio, the 1961 yearbook of the Holy See, was. presented to Pope John XXIII by Archbishop Angelo Dell'Acqua, Vatican Substitute Secretary of State. The Annuario Pontificio, beside listing personnel of the central administration of "the Church, gives statistical data for dioceses throughout the world and vital statistics on the world's 2,500 Catholic Archbishops and Bishops. The extent of the 'Church's growth is indicated by the new yearbook's statistics, compared with those given in the two previous yearbooks issued during Pope John's reign: 1959 I960 1961 Cardinals 74 79 85 Residential and Titular 15 15 15 Residential Metropolitan Sees 316 328 335 Residential Archiepiscopal Sees 42 42 41 Residential Episcopal Sees 1,283. 1,334 1,368 Titular Sees 882 882 882 Prelatures and Abbeys Nullius 85 86 88 Apostolic Administrations 11 11 10 Oriental Rite Prelates with Ordinary per- sonal and territorial jurisdiction 1--- 14 16 18 Vicariates Apostolic 216 178 158 Prefectures Apostolic 115 120 123 Missions and independent districts 6 6 -6 to their highest potential.

yond the High School, he pointed out, said that it "does not be "The requirements of the na lieve that this assistance to vet tional defense, as well as the general welfare of our country, demand that in educational opportunities no child be treated as a second class citizen." Los Angeles. Federal aid to private education is not unconstitutional, Monsignor Patrick J. Dignan, director of the Newman Center at the University of Southern California, asserted. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, he pointed out, was intended to prevent the establishment of a State religion, not to prohibit co-operation between the State and religion. PROPER MEANING The proper interpretation of this relationship, he said, was expressed in the Zorach re-leased-time decision, in which the U.

S. Supreme Court declared: "We are a religious people, whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being." The court, said the priest, erans was designed to help, even directly, the institutions." This means, said the Cardinal, that Congress can subsidize children higher learning, whether public or private. The Hill-Burton Act grants federal money to Church-operated hospitals for necessary expansion to meet the needs of citizens. For men and women in the armed forces, the government builds chapels and provides chaplains. None of these programs, he pointed out, is considered aid to religion, but the federal government is merely assisting the students, the research projects, or the military personnel involved.

"How then can aid to pupils who attend a Church-sponsored elementary or high school be considered as aid to religion?" he asked. "Surely," he said, "a child is not disfranchised because he does not go to a public school. Or does he suddenly become enfranchised when he reaches college or university level, or is inducted into the armed forces, or is admitt2d to a hospital?" (NCWC Wire) AID TO PERSON and students without subsidiz "As an American whose loy ing the schools. alties have been challenged only by the Communists," he said, "I cannot believe that Congress "If Congress were to comply with the task force proposals and compel a child to attend a would accept the proposals of State school as a condition for the task force and use economic sharing in education funds, it compulsion to force parents to would," he asserted, "be en to construct new public educational facilities in various parts of the slate, the money should, relinquish their rights to have religion taught to their gaging in thought control, which, as Justice Jackson re Jew marked, 'is a copyright of to talitarianism, and we have no Congress, he pointed out, has established many precedents for equal treatment of claim to it'." NCWC Wire Labrador Village Visited Bv 1 st Priest in Two Years "Actually the aid referred to in proposed federal aid to education," asserted Monsignor Dignan, "is not the type of forbidden aid referred to in the Everson case," but is aid to the child or the child's taxpaying parents, "who are pursuing a responsibility imposed on them by nature and by civil law. It is by no means an aid to religion." Private schools, he added, "are the expression of parental rights in the matter of education.

Their curricula involve education; religious instruction happens to be an integral pi.rt of education to the minds of these parents." The GI Bill of Rights, which gave veterans federal funds to attend the college of their choice, was, he said, a magnificent precedent in accord with American tradition and the Constitution. The priest also noted that the National Defense Act of 1958 lends federal funds to students attending Church-sponsored colleges and even to the colleges themselves. It also provides aid for research projects at institutions of 100 inhabitants of the vil Goose Bay, Labrador. Black Tickle, a hunting and fishing lage White settlers in a small shack that also serves as a school. He witnessed three marriages and administered three Baptisms, and 13 Confirmations.

He also heard Confessions and gave First Communion to six persons. village 46 miles from here, had not seen a Catholic priest for two years until Father Mario di Leila, O.F.M., arrived there to spend one of the most memorable days of his ministry. War-Time Babies Now Out oi School Little Rock, Ark. A record enrollment of 10,510 students in the 69 Catholic elementary and high schools in the Diocese of Little Rock was announced by Father William M. Beck, diocesan superintendent of schools.

The increase was substantially smaller than the average five per cent jump that has been registered annually since 1951. Father Beck said this indicates that children born during World War II are out of elementary school. BY DOG SLED In addition to his duties at the Within five hours after he ar-' Air Force base in Goose Bay, rived there Father Mario had Father Mario, who previously administered five sacraments served at the Air Force base in after traveling for seven hours Charleston, S. covers 15 by dog sled from the Air Force stations from Newfoundland base here in temperatures averaging 10 degrees below zero. 1,200 miles north of Baffin Is land.

The priest offered Mass for Dr. Thomas A. Dooley Fabulous Saga of Charity Dr. Thomas Dooley Inspired Thousands dent of the University of Notre Dame, said: "The University of Notre Dame grieves at t. 3 passing of one of its most distinguished sons.

Although young in years, Dr. Tom Dooley has exemplified in his life and dpath a spirit of selflessness and Christlike charity which has earned him the admiration of peoples throughout the world. His death is indeed a loss for our nation." St. Louis University announced, meanwhile, that its president, Father Paul C. Rein-ert, S.J., issued a statement from Rome when informed of Dr.

Dooley's death. Father Rein-ert was in Rome to see Cardinal Joseph Ritter, Archbishop of St. Louis, receive his red hat. Father Reinert said in his statement: "The world needed Tom Dooley, not only for the medical help he gave the suffering people in Asia, but, even more important, for the example he gave all of us in carrying out the teachings of Christ." New York. Dr.

Thomas A. Dooley, who devoted his life to combating Communism through medicine in the jungles 'of Laos, died of cancer in Memorial Hospital. Death came on the day aftpr tlP doctor marlcpd hi 34th birthday. Cardinal Francis Spellman, Archbishop of New York, visited Dr. Dooley on his birthday.

The Cardinal commended the young doctor on his accomplishments and bestowed his blessing. Other than members of Dr. Dooley's family, Cardinal Spellman was the only visitor permitted to see him. Also on his birthday, Dr. Dooley received hundreds of messages, including a telegram from President Eisenhower.

In the telegram, Mr. Eisenhower told the young physician: "It must be a source of heartened gratification to realize that in so few years you have accomplished to South Vietnam. He was awarded the Legion of Merit for his work by the Navy and also was decorated by President Ngu Dinh Diem of Vietnam. Dr. Dooley wrote a book, Dtii el Us liuia Evil," itiiuul hir: experiences in Vietnam in 1956 and with the proceeds from the book, became a best seller, he established a hospital to help 'he natives pull away from what he termed 15th century medicine to modern techniques.

Two other best sellers, "The Edge of Tomorrow" and "The Night They Burned the Mountain," were to come later. Dr. Dooley was co-founder of MEDICO (Medical International Co-Operation Organization), which established nine medical service programs in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. In a statement issued in connection with his death. Father Theodore M.

Hesburgh, presi so much for the good of distant peoples and have inspired so many others to work for all humanity." Pontifial Requiem Mass was offered in St. Louis Cathedral, St. Louis. Auxiliary Bishup Leo C. Byrne of St.

Louis presided. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery beside the bodies of his father, Thomas A. Dooley, and a brother, Earle, who was killed in Germany in World War II. Dr. Dooley was born in St.

Louis and attended the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind. He served two years as a Navy corpsman in World War II, after which he enrolled at St. Louis University Medical School. Young Dooley was graduated in 1953 and rejoined the Navy for his internship. He served at beleagured Haiphong in Communist North Vietnam, where he processed more than 600,000 refugees fleeing from the Reds Old Friends Get Together Prince of the Church.

Hampton presented interracial jazz concerts in St. Louis Catholic schools, and he and the Cardinal became fast friends at that time. Cardinal Ritter has been a recognized leader in the fight against racial discrimination in the U.S. Jazz musician Lionel Hampton kneels to kiss the ring of Cardinal Joseph Ritter in Rome after the Archbishop of St. Louis was elevated to the Sacred College of Cardinals.

The Negro jazz artist made a special trip to Rome to witness the prelate's elevation as a.